Monday, 2 June 2008

Starting with Silverlight

Ok, I'm finally getting started. I'm attempting to learn enough to put a Silverlight 2 application together.

The basic idea is to have a browser based interface that will allow office workers to mark themselves as present in the office or out on a clients site (a full spec is still being dreamt up).

I'm hoping to put a tablet pc by the office entrance so the UI needs to be finger friendly. As an update occurs at the door I'd like to push the data to any client with the application open. In a recent .Net Rocks podcast Dan Wahlin suggested that sockets would be a good way forward (see article One and Two). However I'm starting with a look at the UI, the back-end will follow.

As this is a homer (for now) things will happen in small chunks, I therefore plan to blog each [lunch] hours progress.......

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