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Comments on: Build a Silverlight media player

If the picture is blurry 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 23:03 GMT

Joke

it won't matter thanks to the pollution level. M$ is safe!!! pfeww

All very interesting but... 

Posted Monday 14th January 2008 04:20 GMT

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Use Expression Blend ('preview' version) on a 'trial basis' or a beta of VS2008 (If VS2005 works as well, why not use it?) for a real production site?. In particular since pretty much everybody dropping by my newly created stie

I got burnt using early version 1.0 of Visual Interdev years ago, so if I was building a real site .. i.e. getting paid to produce stuff rather than playing with new tech, I would just use Flex rather than Silverlight.

I really would like to see a side-by side example showing some reason to use Silverlight rather than more mature tech...

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