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On Silverlight vs Flex – II

Popularity of my last post on ‘Silverlight vs. Flex’ prompted me to write more on it, or rather research more on the subject. Bit of googling revealed this comparison is hot in blogosphere and lots of articles and blog posts have already been written and published. This led me to idea of creating a collection of writings to provide reader with good content links at one place. So here we go:

What is Silverlight?

http://www,silverlight.net/

What is Flex?

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex


Pro-Flex Opinions
http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/04/m-silverlight-vs-adobe-flash-player.php
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9077660
http://sudhahariharan.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/silverlight-flex-a-comparative-study/
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/adobe-flex-beats-silverlight-every-time-19197

Pro-Silverlight Opinions
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/take-time-to-understand-silverlight-its-important/
http://www.thewayithink.co.uk/post/Why-Silverlight-is-nailing-Flex.aspx

Silverligth VS. Flex — Feature Comparison
http://extremeblue.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/flex-vs-silverlight-my-views/

http://fahimilyas.blogspot.com/2008/05/road-to-silverlight-part-1.html

Silverlight vs. Flex: See what Google Trends / Google Fight suggest who is winning?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=flex%2Csilverlight&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Silverlight&word2=Flex

Open Discussion on Silverlight vs. Flex

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=371352
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/634/1076.aspx

Tutorial of Silverlight and Flex
http://www.insideria.com/2008/02/hello-flex-silverlight-and-jav.html

Silverlight & Flex — Co-existence
http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/08/20/communicate-between-flex-and-silverlight-using-javascript/

Note: Above are just few links from many others valuable writings available over the web, you are most welcome to add more links / your opinions on the topic. Thanks :)

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  1. May 7, 2008 at 8:40 pm | #1

    Great collection. Good article.

  2. neyawn
    May 10, 2008 at 8:50 pm | #2

    Quite a good collection of resources. We are student developers from India, and we love Flex. This is definitely going to be useful for us. And thanks for listing us here.

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