Buzzy And Me

About 5 months ago, I made a Flex/AIR application called Stockastica. It was a virtual stock trading simulation. Subsequently, I ported it to Silverlight 2 Beta 1. The first beta was just released and I was eager to see what I could do with it. It wasn’t a very complicated app. Only basic web services were used. I made the app and forgot about it.

Today, I decided to port the app to beta 2. It is quite daunting when you start out. But like all things, you only need to find the right resources to help you get started. Probably the most helpful one was a post on /dev/arthur. It solved almost all my problems.

If you are hosting the app on IIS7, don’t forget to add a .xap extension with a mime type of application/x-silverlight. Porting apps that use sockets was a bit troublesome. A detailed description of the changes between beta 1 and 2 is available here.

A screencast of the ported application…

Silverlight Stockastica Demo from Chinmay Garde on Vimeo.
Regards,
Buzzy

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Adobe is organizing a developer’s meet on September 10-11, 2008 in Bangalore, India. The RIA Developer Summit is focused on developers. Adobe RIA Developer Summit offers a unique opportunity to designers and developers to gain insights into the design and development of RIAs. The key features are:

• Hear from eminent personalities like Ben Forta, Director – Evangelism, and Michele Turner, VP – Platform, on the impact of RIAs.
  
• Interact with the Flex team and learn how to get that “killer look” for your application that you always dreamed off.
• Learn how Adobe Flex dramatically accelerates your projects.
• What’s more, get Adobe Flex Builder 3 worth around Rs. 12000/- FREE !

For young student developers, this is a terrific opportunity. So go ahead and register at Adobe India’s Technical Evangelist’s site . If you are a  faculty drop Raghu a mail at raghunath.rao at gmail dot com, and he just might personaly call and invite you!

You could also leave me a comment for any furthur information. Cya at the developer’s meet.

- Neyawn & Buzzy