Die, AJAX!

In our last Silverlight tutorial, we created the simplest Hello World application possible, using a single HTML file. Starting at the bare minimum allowed us to see exactly what components go into a Silverlight application without using Visual Studio Orcas as a crutch (in downloadable beta at the time of this writing) or Javascript as a buffer.

So, while the previous tutorial served its academic purpose, it didn’t necessarily create a good foundation for building future Silverlight applications. In this tutorial, we will put a Silverlight application together in the way recommended by Microsoft (as of the Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh). Read the rest of this entry »

Today, we will create a VERY basic “Hello World” Silverlight application. Since this is my first tutorial, as an experiment, I will break this tutorial up into three (hopefully self-explanatory) sections including: Prerequisites, QuickStart and Lesson. Over time, I will tweak my tutorial format based on your feedback. But, enough talk…let’s get started! Read the rest of this entry »

It should come as no surprise when I say that the hype surrounding the introductions of Microsoft’s Silverlight, Adobe’s Flex, and Sun’s JavaFX helped inspire me to create this blog. So, over the course of the next couple of months, I’ll spread my time evenly between each of these application run-times, chronicling my experience and passing it along to my readers. As a developer whom regularly dedicates his free time to researching all the different variations and interpretations of MVC in the web layer, I look forward to seeing how these technologies abate (or increase ) the pain of writing browser-based applications.

So, without further ado, let me introduce our new friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, my name is David Miles and welcome to dieAJAX.com, a blog dedicated to helping designers and developers create new and exciting Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using cutting edge technologies. If you want to know more about me, please read the About page. I have big plans for this, so stay tuned!