Intersoft Solutions, a global vendor specializing in ready built user interface controls for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF, today announced the official release of WebUI Studio 2011 R2.
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ClientUI for LightSwitch Released
We’re pleased to announce that ClientUI for Visual Studio LightSwitch is now immediately available for download. The release is set together along with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 launch event today at Microsoft Auditorium. We’re excited to be part of the LightSwitch launch where we brought a live showcase on the LightSwitch controls extension. Check out some of the photos taken during the event.
Intersoft Solutions Debuts WebUI Studio 2011 R1
Intersoft Solutions, a global vendor specializing in highly-reusable user interface controls for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF, today announced the official release of WebUI Studio 2011 R1. It introduces over 30 new controls spanning across three platforms, including the flagship UXGridView, a high performance MVVM-compliant data grid for Silverlight and WPF, in addition to many enhancements. WebUI Studio R1 delivers a total of 290 powerful controls for small to large-sized enterprise business application development.
Intersoft Solutions Releases WebUI Studio 2010 R2
Intersoft Solutions today announced the official release of WebUI Studio® 2010 R2, the world’s most advanced presentation layer toolset for ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF application development. Featuring over 60 new rich controls for Silverlight and WPF platform, and dozens of new business-inspiring samples, developers can now rapidly build cross-platform applications with the next-generation user experiences, while at the same time leveraging the best practice in architectural design pattern.
Microsoft's Silverlight developers are angry
A few days ago, I read Mary Jo Foley's article titled Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted. According to an interview with the President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft, the company will be shifting support for Silverlight away from the PC and Mac desktop and toward the phone market.
So what’s a developer to make of Microsoft’s messaging (or lack thereof) about Silverlight at its premiere developer conference?
I asked Bob Muglia, the Microsoft President in charge of the company’s server and tools business, that very question and got what I consider to be the clearest answer yet about how Microsoft is evolving its Silverlight strategy.
“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-business applications, he said.
But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.
Microsoft plans to be using HTML 5 to replace the functions currently being provided by Silverlight 5.
It is not the point of this post to debate the merits of HTML 5, Silverlight and even Flash. What is my point though, is that Microsoft appears to me to be desperate. Desperate to come up with a strategic plan that will carry them beyond the day of Windows PCs. Microsoft is desperate to become innovative for the sake of innovation that they're really confusing a lot of their developers. If only after a few years of support, Microsoft is shifting focus of it's Silverlight platform...what potential developer in his or her right mind would support another future Microsoft endeavor? Just take a look at the comments to Bob Muglia's blog post discussing this topic and I think you'll see my point.
Bitrix alerts about Trojan program disguising as updates for Bitrix security framework
The Trojan installs a keylogger capable to capture keystrokes including username, password and credit card number.
Bitrix, Inc. (www.bitrixsoft.com), a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, alerts customers about the existence of a Trojan program pretending to be the Bitrix security framework. The Trojan is capable of stealing confidential data from infected computers and received the highest threat level from malware experts.
Identified as a part of the “Agent” malware family, the Trojan is presumably spread using mass mailing of spam and malicious links. The malware can be delivered to the target computer in different flavors including pretending to be a Microsoft Silverlight or Bitrix security update. If a user launches the infected file, the Trojan installs itself into the system by creating multiple files and registering itself in the system registry. After installation the malware unobtrusively runs in the background, captures keystrokes and sends out collected data to an external service. This way a malicious person can obtain the user’s confidential information including username, password and credit card number.
The Trojan can be identified by the presence of “Bitrix Security” folder in the application data directory which contains a number of supplementary files and a run-time library under randomly generated names (for example xaukvmm60.dll).
Bitrix recommends that users update their virus scanners and check their computers against this malicious program.
Read more about how to protect your web assets against web-borne malware in a dedicated white paper "10 Ways to Keep Hackers in Check and Ensure Safe Web Resources" by Marcel Nizam, Head of Web Security Development at Bitrix, Inc.
Introducing the First Silverlight Powered .NET CMS
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.
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
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."
Open source closes gap on Microsoft's next Silverlight
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."
Six factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight
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.

