The ChristmasCrunch nearly real-time web event

By On December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

On the 15th of December I’m going to the ChristmasCrunch. It looks like a really good event with Iain Dodsworth and James Whittaker of TweetDeck giving the keynote on “Where the biggest realtime desktop application goes next” (I know where I’m hoping it goes. See below). Other presentations include Jenni Lees [...]

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A Real Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) Example

By On November 3, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve just had an article published in the latest UK MSDN Flash newsletter on How to consume real-time data in a Silverlight RIA. As part of writing up the article I developed a sample Real-Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) that consumes real-time data from the Twitter [...]

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Using Fiddler to trick Silverlight into allowing a crossdomain Web Request

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

If you are trying to make a web request from a Silverlight application the first thing the Silverlight runtime will do is request a security policy file (see Network Security Access Restrictions in Silverlight) from the root of the server you are making your web request to. This happens if you are making [...]

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Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIA)

By On October 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIAs) are RIAs that consume and display real-time data. They have all the characteristics of an RIA with the added feature that data is being pushed to them in real-time as soon as it becomes available. This is in contrast to the current polling solution employed by most RIAs [...]

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