Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

The development platform and tools strategy at Microsoft is getting increasingly complex, especially around XAML/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Here's the latest. Microsoft on ...

Software developers are busy kicking the tires on Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash. This summary of not-necessarily-technical information will help IT managers identify what's ...

Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D, ...

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A while back, I had mentioned using Out-GridView to build a UI without really doing anything that complicated. As fun as that is, we can have even more fun by making use of Windows Presentation ...

Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be. To ease that pain, Microsoft ...