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Adobe’s Andrew Shorten has posted on the future of Flex, the developer-oriented tool for building applications for the Flash runtime. This is one of the clearest statements I have seen from Adobe that recognises that the role of Flash on the web is diminishing: There are countless examples where, in the past, Flex was …continue reading Adobe says role of Flex and Flash has changed, makes play for mobile Microsoft has released Visual Studio LightSwitch, a rapid application builder for data-centric applications. LightSwitch builds Silverlight applications, which may seem strange bearing in mind that the future of Silverlight has been hotly debated since its lack of emphasis at the 2010 Professional Developers Conference. The explanation is either that Silverlight – or some …continue reading Microsoft releases Visual Studio LightSwitch: a fascinating product with an uncertain future A detailed benchmark posted on codeproject investigates the performance of basic operations including string handling, hash tables, math generics, simple arithmetic, sorting, file scanning and (for C#) platform invoke of native code. These are the conclusions: There is only a small performance penalty for C# on the desktop versus C++. Mono is generally slower …continue reading C# vs C++ and .NET vs Mono vs Compact Framework performance tests I am wary about writing another post on this subject in the absence of any further news, but since there is a lot of speculation out there I thought it would be worth making a few further observations. Will Windows 8 support Silverlight and/or some other variety of .NET in its new touch-centric mode? …continue reading Common sense on Windows 8, Silverlight and .NET Amongst all the fuss about whether Microsoft is deprecating Silverlight or even client-side .NET, it is easy to lose sight of the other angle on this. What are the implications of Microsoft embracing HTML and JavaScript as a new first-class Windows development platform? Here’s the quote again: Today, we also talked a bit about …continue reading Considering Windows 8 as an HTML platform There is a long discussion over on the official Silverlight forum about Microsoft’s Windows 8 demo at D9 and what was said, and not said; and another over on Channel 9, Microsoft’s video-centric community site for developers. At D9 Microsoft showed that Windows 8 has a dual personality. In one mode it has a …continue reading Microsoft refuses to comment as .NET developers fret about Windows 8 Last year I wrote a piece for The Register on 25 years of Windows. I even ran up Windows 1.0 in a DOS box to have a look. The surprising thing about Windows is not how much has changed in 25 years, but how little. The WIMP model (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) has …continue reading A pivotal moment for Microsoft as it attempts to escape its Windows legacy Microsoft’s Windows President Steven Sinofsky has shown off an early build of Windows 8 at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It turns out that the not-so subliminal messaging at the PDC conference late in 2010 was spot on. HTML 5 and JavaScript are at the centre of the new Windows, for …continue reading Check out these images of Windows 8 – but where is Silverlight? Mono is an open source implementation of .NET, formerly sponsored by Novell, and its future following Novell’s acquisition by Attachmate has been the subject of speculation. Today Mono leader Miguel de Icaza has revealed new plans. In a blog post, he announces Xamarin, a new company focused on Mono. This company will build new …continue reading Mono splits from Novell/Attachmate to form basis of new company Yesterday Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore (phone VP) and Scott Guthrie (developer VP) took the stage at the Mix 2011 conference in Las Vegas to tell us what is new with Windows Phone. The opening part of the keynote was significant. Belfiore spent some time talking about the “update situation”. This is all to …continue reading Windows Phone at Mix 2011: what Microsoft said and did not say |
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