If you develop applications in Silverlight a lot, it becomes more and more annoying that Flex doesn’t support multi threading. This is particularly annoying when you are processing a long running task and need to display some progress. The problem is that you can’t do this task on a background...
In this post I’m comparing Flex 4 and Silverlight 4’s clipboard access abilities. My previous post was rather long, so I’ll try to keep this one short :). Accessing the clipboard should be an interesting comparison, since both Flash 10 and Silverlight 4 take different approaches. I...
In this post I’m again comparing two features of Silverlight and Flex, this time we’re going to take a look at how data validation is implemented on both platforms. This will be a very interesting comparison, since Flex and Silverlight take entirely different approaches. Which one is better...
I’ve wanted to do a “Silverlight vs Flex” series for quite a while now. Both Silverlight and Flex will reach version 4 during the first quarter of this year, at least, that’s what the roadmaps say. With both reaching version 4, this seems like the perfect time to do a comparison...
This post is about some of the new Flash Builder 4 Data Centric Development features. I'm going to use these features to integrate a Flex 4 front-end, with a .Net back-end. Let's start with the .Net back-end. The .Net Back-end The .Net back-end will be a WCF Service Application. We're going...
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Filed under: Flex, .Net, Adobe, C#, LINQ, Flash Builder, Data Centric Development, WCF, Flex Builder, Flex 4, Webservices, DCD, Gumbo, Adobe Flex