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by pclark 6362 days ago
wow, really impressive application (I made an account)

I couldn't get "website" resources to work? when I load them it just fails, odd!

the app wasn't full screen for me by the way, merely full window :)

How did you find Silverlight to develop in? are you on twitter? you should be :)
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stormideas 6362 days ago
Thanks, really glad you liked it!

I'll take a look into your issue with the website screen grabs and get it sorted.

Yes, full window is indeed the correct term I should be using.

To be honest I found Silverlight a joy to develop in. In the past I've tried AJAX and Flash / Flex when trying to develop this kind of RIA application.

Personally I don't enjoy writing code in Javascript, and found it difficult to bring my ideas of how I wanted the user experience to come together into reality.

With Flash / Flex I could get the richer experience I was looking for but was then developing in a different application / language when working on the UI component as opposed to the back end and this was less productive.

Thanks,

Bob

p.s My twitter username is "movingforwards".

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pclark 6362 days ago
cool, I proded the european amazon web services dude to check out your site - nice publicity :) (he's @simon on twitter, I'm @plc)

Maybe, MAYBE, a little too many refelctions on the site. Just my 2 cents.

Can you turn this web app into a desktop app easily with silverlight?

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stormideas 6362 days ago
At the moment if you want to turn it into a desktop application then you've got two choices:

1. WPF application - copy / share the code with a full blown WPF application and fix any incompatibility errors (Silverlight is a subset of the full .NET framework so there shouldn't be many).

2. Mesh Application - Live Mesh applications include the ability to run Silverlight outside of the browser, like a desktop application (short cuts, start menu items etc). I've done a bit of a proof of concept of this (http://www.vimeo.com/2542327 for an overview) but this introduces a hard dependancy on the user having Live Mesh installed so for the moment it's just proof of concept.

Thanks.

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pclark 6362 days ago
do you run OS X? I guess you could just make a browser app (eg, Fluid)

I was just thinking users like having a "desktop" application - might re-iterate the lovely Silverlight experience if the user could "download" a copy.

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