Yeah, sorry I’ve been running behind on the .Net Nugget posts. :( I have a million and one excuses and it all boils down to it hasn’t been on the priority list lately. I’ve got a back log of topics for it so I’ll be getting something out soon.
Remember in high school when you thought learning higher mathematics was useless? Well, the skills paid off for some people: Check out this BBC article on how mathematics relates to beer. You know, why do I have a mental image of a group of math professors at a bar arguing over this until one of them decided to work it out?
WPF/E is Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere. It’s a cross-browser, cross platform media technology. The guys on .Net Rocks have been saying it’s comparible to Flash. Well, they’ve now given it an official name, and for once Microsoft hasn’t even put the word Windows in the title: Silverlight. Check out more on their website: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/.
From what I can gather it’s XAML based, but doesn’t support the full XAML capabilities that WPF does in .