How SilverLight was build by Gaurav Khanna (Microsoft Corp):
- SilverLight is Microsoft’s paradigm of developing rich internet application (RIA) that runs in Browser Sandbox and are cross-browser in nature
- Gaurav started with a nice white page (Ink Application), wrote on it, rather than do slides
- One file core.dll contains both the CLR and JITing part
- Browsers due to W3C standard downloads only 2 threads (images, CSS whatever), what happens in SilverLight. He didn’t answer to my satisfaction, as I suppose everything should be bound by the WinInet limitation.
Building Cool Virtual Earth Mashups by Janakiram MSV (Microsoft India)
- Jani is brilliant and his demos on the mashups with theatres in Mumbai, tab popups, integration with Sulekha Yellow Pages Feed and BharatMatrimony RSS feed was cool
- I am waiting for him to post the samples, code in his blog
- His humour on “You can do anything and everything – server side, client side, JavaScript, XML, Web Services anything, because at the end it is all mash-ups”
- He talked about Map Cruncher (Custom tile generator), MapPoint Web Service (Enterprise Service) & Virtual Earth (Enterprise Service)
Astoria – Data on the Cloud by Janakiram MSV (Microsoft India)
- Accessing data stored in the cloud and access it using HTTP REST
- Astoria is Data Access Pattern, Online Service, .NET Library
- It is about Web Data Access and not Database Web Access – the difference being accessing Data from a URI using REST and not SOAP or anything else
- Explained the difference between Astoria which is an online service and ADO.NET Entity Model and Web Data Extensions
- (References: MSDN Data Access Incubation projects including Astoria and Jasper)