Tag Archives: Silverlight

Shizxaml – Silverlight’s old codename?

According to Mike Harsh in his Mix talk on Silverlight 3.0 – Out of Browser, before silverlight was WPF/E, internally Microsoft were calling it Shizxaml. I so wish this had been the product name. “Lets shizxaml that sucker” and the like. Brilliant!

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Microsoft announces Silverlight

Microsoft have just announced Silverlight, the new branding for what was previously known as WPF/E. They’ve also provided a lot more details about the specifications and their future plans.  Silverlight is the new Adobe (Macromedia) Flash competitor from Microsoft, it is based on the new Windows Presentation Foundation graphics engine found in Vista. It turns out that [...]

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