Microsoft to launch Silverlight for Symbian beta within a week

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Back near the start of 2008, it was announced by the Redmond software-giant Microsoft and Finnish communications company Nokia that the Silverlight platform would be coming to Symbian OS phones. Fast forward to 2010, and there's still no sign of that happening – until now. Two ...

Silverlight/XNA confirmed as developer frameworks for Windows Phone 7

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Documents leaked to the XDA-Developers forum reveal that Windows Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend are the primary tools for developing applications for Windows Phones. Developer frameworks The documents show that there are two frameworks available for developers to create applications. The first is the Silverlight UI framework for ...

Ex-Microsoft employee compares Windows Phone 7 to Vista

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Scott Barnes, formerly a Microsoft Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight), has voiced his opinions on the Windows Phone 7 user interface (UI). Barnes covers various topics of thought on the Windows Phone 7 announcements and admits when he initially saw the early specs, whilst he was ...

Microsoft’s Silverlight Client for Facebook released

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Scott Guthrie, VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, originally demonstrated a Silverlight client for Facebook during his PDC 2009 keynote late last year. Today Microsoft has made the Silverlight Client available for Windows and Mac OS X users to install. The client requires Silverlight 4 and installs a ...