Now this is exciting.
With our new WPF and Silverlight 2.0 map controls, developers and designers will soon be able to build rich interactive mapping applications for the desktop and web. In our opinion, WPF and Silverlight 2.0 take giant leap forward from other user interface technologies such as Windows Forms, Java, Flash, JavaScript APIs and ActiveX controls.
Many .NET developers I know are really excited about what WPF and Silverlight can do for them on the web. Now that development environments are available to actually push production websites out that support WPF and Silverlight, I think we’ll start seeing some very interesting Virtual Earth/GIS applications in the coming months. Despite what some say about “doing GIS” inside web clients, there is a movement toward giving basic GIS controls to web users to perform GIS tasks. WPF, I think, gives an effective platform to run geospatial analysis.
Personally I think I’ve got to get that MDNS project a kick in the pants. We’ve been stalled due to funding (warfighting takes precedence these days with DoD projects), but maybe we can get things back on track this spring.
WPF bringing in Weather.com tiles into your project
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Tim Maddle
// Mar 1, 2008 at 9:33 am
Looks awesome and I’m really looking to move past basic HTML for web-based clients. However, it’s going to be a good while before WPF & Silverlight have the same kind of market presence as Flash.
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Rob Love
// Mar 2, 2008 at 5:23 am
“Silverlight 2.0 take giant leap forward from other user interface technologies such as Windows Forms, Java, Flash, JavaScript APIs and ActiveX controls.”
I don’t know how true this statement is for Flash. Since AS3 I’m not sure the same things can’t be done in either environment.
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Tim Maddle
// Mar 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised. Although I haven’t worked much with Flash, ActionScript 3 seems very much like C#. Flash probably deserves better consideration than it currently gets as a development tool.
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