Sun and IBM are expected Wednesday to announce the Open Document Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making it easier for developers to use ODF.
Sun is contributing an initial set of code that API developers can use to work with ODF files without having to know the ins and outs of the technical specification, the companies said.
The joint announcement follows the launch last year of an initial ODF Toolkit project on the OpenOffice.org project site.
"We're going to have a call to action to other folks," said Sun spokeswoman Terri Molini. "We're welcoming everybody from Microsoft to whomever. That's our goal here, to get out and do some outreach."
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Showing posts with label Microsoft silverlight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft silverlight. Show all posts
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
.NET Out of the Box
When Microsoft launched the final version of Silverlight 2 last month, it marked a crucial step in the maturation of the .NET-inspired rich Internet application (RIA) platform.
More than a runtime for streaming rich media over the wire, Silverlight 2 incorporates a robust subset of .NET Framework. That has significant implications for .NET shops looking to extend the reach of their code-making efforts.
Microsoft's goal with Silverlight is twofold. The first goal is enabling media, particularly video and audio, and the second goal is enabling RIAs -- both consumer and business applications. "We're optimizing around those two tracks," says Brad Becker, Microsoft's director of rich client platforms.
It's the second track that's capturing the attention of .NET dev managers. Microsoft Development Division Corporate VP Scott Guthrie asserts that Silverlight 2 development is tightly integrated with the existing .NET stack, allowing coders to leverage existing skills and tooling for Silverlight-based app development.
During a press briefing to announce the launch of Silverlight 2 last month, Guthrie noted that existing tooling would be updated for the final Silverlight 2 release. Visual Studio 2008, the Expression Blend 2 design tool and the freely available Visual Web Developer Express IDE for Silverlight development are gaining Silverlight 2 -- specific patches as part of the update. Guthrie laid out a compelling argument for .NET dev shops considering Silverlight-based RIA development.
Silverlight allows developers to use any programming language they want, including VB, C#, JavaScript, Python and Ruby. "Developers can plug in their own languages that they want and be able to use them," Guthrie said. "One of the things we were trying to do with Visual Studio and with Expression is to provide a tooling experience that feels very natural to developers, and hopefully in a lot of senses feels very comfortable and familiar."
Cross-Platform Player
One noteworthy aspect of Silverlight 2 is its ability to deliver .NET-based application logic beyond the traditional circle of .NET-enabled clients. It's a characteristic of Silverlight that .NET developers are excited about, says Andrew Brust, chief of new technology for consultancy twentysix New York.
Currently Microsoft provides Silverlight runtimes for specific browsers running on Windows XP-, Windows Vista- and Mac OS X-based PCs. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows clients, and Firefox and Apple Safari on Macs. The company has also announced runtime development for two mobile platforms: Windows Mobile and Symbian OS-based devices from cell-phone maker Nokia Corp. Guthrie says private testing with additional partners is underway.
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More than a runtime for streaming rich media over the wire, Silverlight 2 incorporates a robust subset of .NET Framework. That has significant implications for .NET shops looking to extend the reach of their code-making efforts.
Microsoft's goal with Silverlight is twofold. The first goal is enabling media, particularly video and audio, and the second goal is enabling RIAs -- both consumer and business applications. "We're optimizing around those two tracks," says Brad Becker, Microsoft's director of rich client platforms.
It's the second track that's capturing the attention of .NET dev managers. Microsoft Development Division Corporate VP Scott Guthrie asserts that Silverlight 2 development is tightly integrated with the existing .NET stack, allowing coders to leverage existing skills and tooling for Silverlight-based app development.
During a press briefing to announce the launch of Silverlight 2 last month, Guthrie noted that existing tooling would be updated for the final Silverlight 2 release. Visual Studio 2008, the Expression Blend 2 design tool and the freely available Visual Web Developer Express IDE for Silverlight development are gaining Silverlight 2 -- specific patches as part of the update. Guthrie laid out a compelling argument for .NET dev shops considering Silverlight-based RIA development.
Silverlight allows developers to use any programming language they want, including VB, C#, JavaScript, Python and Ruby. "Developers can plug in their own languages that they want and be able to use them," Guthrie said. "One of the things we were trying to do with Visual Studio and with Expression is to provide a tooling experience that feels very natural to developers, and hopefully in a lot of senses feels very comfortable and familiar."
Cross-Platform Player
One noteworthy aspect of Silverlight 2 is its ability to deliver .NET-based application logic beyond the traditional circle of .NET-enabled clients. It's a characteristic of Silverlight that .NET developers are excited about, says Andrew Brust, chief of new technology for consultancy twentysix New York.
Currently Microsoft provides Silverlight runtimes for specific browsers running on Windows XP-, Windows Vista- and Mac OS X-based PCs. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows clients, and Firefox and Apple Safari on Macs. The company has also announced runtime development for two mobile platforms: Windows Mobile and Symbian OS-based devices from cell-phone maker Nokia Corp. Guthrie says private testing with additional partners is underway.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Microsoft Whips out Silverlight 2
Monday Microsoft announced that they’ll soon release version 2.0 of their rich Web application plug-in, which the company is pushing as an alternative to Adobe’s Flash.
Silverlight 2, however, comes with a twist. Microsoft have decided to take it one step further from the direction the plug-in was currently taking – mostly web videos – and add a portion of the Redmond company’s .Net framework technology, as well as support for modern programming languages like C#, Python, and Ruby. Videos haven’t been forgotten though, and enhanced video support will be included. Silverlight 2 can also call Web services and Atom endpoints to support componentized Web apps. Read more..
Silverlight 2, however, comes with a twist. Microsoft have decided to take it one step further from the direction the plug-in was currently taking – mostly web videos – and add a portion of the Redmond company’s .Net framework technology, as well as support for modern programming languages like C#, Python, and Ruby. Videos haven’t been forgotten though, and enhanced video support will be included. Silverlight 2 can also call Web services and Atom endpoints to support componentized Web apps. Read more..
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