With both Silverlight 4 and Flex 4 you have the ability to completely change the look of a control, without subclassing it, while leaving it's functionality intact. This process is called “Templating” in Silverlight and is called “Skinning” in Flex. What’s interesting...
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...