Through Tim Sneath (who, at long last, I had the pleasure of meeting at Dublin’s IMTC) comes the most impressive Silverlight 1.1 Alpha demo I have seen since MIX07.
A company called NetikaTech has recreated a vast amount of the Windows Forms controls using Silverlight. And perhaps most impressively, there’s a mock-up of a Windows Forms Design Surface (of the sort you get in Visual Studio to build WinForms apps) which you can use to build the UI for applications - and then run the app you’ve built! No codebehind support yet — but it is very easy to see how Silverlight will ultimately facilitate rich development experiences in a browser.
To me, this also speaks to the fact that many of Microsoft’s next wave of apps - from Office to Visual Studio - are begging to be implemented in Silverlight. Because if Microsoft don’t give us all the richness of Word, Excel and Outlook’s user interfaces in a browser soon, someone else will!!
Truly impressive, Netika and Microsoft; I am dazzled by Silverlight once again. And to think this is just the Alpha!
Written Jun 23rd, 2007 |
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