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Introducing the First Silverlight Powered .NET CMS

By .netdan - Posted on 17 August 2009

Launched recently is the new .NET CMS from Media Courtyard, currently in its second beta stage and due for final release over the coming months.

What makes this .NET CMS stand out is its use of the new Microsoft Silverlight 3 plugin which gives content editors an easy to use WYSIWYG interface.

The beta version can be freely downloaded and installed on a shared server to keep costs low. In terms of features it has all the usual CMS functionality such as page metadata, indexed search, dynamic news/rss generation, membership and a whole lot more.

The beta version and documentation can be found at www.mediacourtyard.com.

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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

By Bryan - Posted on 17 June 2009

ComputerWorld: " HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX."

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Open source closes gap on Microsoft's next Silverlight

By Bryan - Posted on 05 May 2009

The Register: "Moonlight 2.0 has been delivered for preview featuring APIs from Microsoft's Silverlight 3.0 that the project's organizers said it made sense to add. Moonlight puts Microsoft's Silverlight on Linux and Unix.

Moonlight 2.0 is modeled on Silverlight 2.0 but since work began on the second version of Moonlight, Microsoft released a beta for the third edition of Silverlight with final code expected later this year."

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Six factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight

By CMS Report - Posted on 02 May 2008

ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

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Microsoft celebrates Silverlight's First Year

By Bryan - Posted on 15 April 2008

InternetNews: This year at the National Association of Broadcasters, Microsoft is celebrating a year of progress since Silverlight's debut. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform streaming media technology (think Adobe Flash). Microsoft is announcing updates to developers' tools that tie it to the company's popular Sharepoint collaboration server, and plans to blow its own horn to call attention to the technology's growing momentum.

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Silverlight 2.0 Hello World

By Bryan - Posted on 06 April 2008

DotNetNuke Blog: I believe that Silverlight will drive growth in the DotNetNuke community. Most Silverlight applications will still require membership, authentication and access to data. As many in the DotNetNuke community already know these things are easily provided by leveraging the DotNetNuke framework.

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Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

By Bryan - Posted on 03 March 2008

"The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications that use Web Parts can now be built using Silverlight user interface elements. This capability enables a fresh look at data exposed through SharePoint Products and Technologies using the modern graphics capability in Silverlight."

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