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I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...

So with the whole emergence of web 2.0 there has been a great deal of emphasis on making web applications behave much more like desktop applications. Now integral to this process has been Ajax, and this has of course opened new possibilities in User Experience, so much so the line between web application and desktop app has blurred significantly, ...

First, the Microsoft AJAX toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 has recently been released as version 1.0.You can see live demos of the controls by pointing your browser over here. it looks good in firefox, which is good.I've been watching the MS Ajax videos (or screen-casts if you like) on my laptop while on the train. They are presented by Joe Stagner. ...