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Hanselminutes Podcast 121 - LineRider - Porting a Flash Game to Silverlight 2

Posted in Podcast | Silverlight.

My one-hundred-and-twentyfirst podcast is up.

In this episode, I talk to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. We chat about how and why they ported the popular Flash Game LineRider.com to Silverlight 2.

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Posted at 2008-07-16 10:18 PM by Scott
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:14:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I'm confused. I distinctly recall listening to this podcast on my drive to Saint Louis last weekend. How is it just now coming out?

megotoaz@yahoo.com

Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:45:46 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

It did. Scott runs a bit behind on posting a notice to his blog from time to time.

http://www.developerbuzz.com/

Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:10:46 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

It's true, I'm slow.

Scott Hanselman

Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:34:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Just an FYI, ActionScript/Flash is JIT compiled, not interpreted.

Also, it sounds like they are comparing Silverlight 2 to Flash 8. Flash 9 is several times faster than Flash 8. I am not saying that Flash is as fast as Silverlight (I honestly have no idea). The only benchmarks I have seen are from here: http://www.craftymind.com/guimark/ , but I don't think you can derive too much from these.

Derek Wischusen

Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:05:19 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Good to know, thanks for clearing that up!

Scott Hanselman

Monday, July 21, 2008 1:55:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hi Scott,
Nice episode.

Question...

I really liked the General Feedback Forum you used on BabySmash, with the ability to submit , vote discuss ideas.

Is this something you wrote yourself or something I can download and install on my site?

Thanks for all you do.

Mark

Mark Kitz

Monday, July 21, 2008 2:02:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

It's uservoice.com. You can set it up in 5 min!

Scott

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:57:58 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Thanks good topic, being involved in flash website design for more then 10 years I'm really keen to see a more structured and logical alternative to Adobe Flash, I thought that MS Silverlight would be a major contendor, but untill now apart from some promotional samples I have not come across many people using it.

The Flash Guy

Monday, August 04, 2008 1:04:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

regarding flash, silverlight, etc being slower on the Mac vs Windows: While I've not actually written any code on the Mac yet, I did some research into the libraries and in Objective C 2 they introduced managed memory. The memory is reference-counted and according to the research on the .Net framework they found that reference-counted memory management was hugely slower than using the garbage collector. I suspect that has a great deal to do with the slowness.

Love your podcasts.

Chad

Chad

Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:32:59 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Hi!
I heard on the podcast that Silverlight has built in support to interface with Windows Live Messenger. I found no reference to it while searching the web. Can you give us more info ?

Thanks,
Tiago Andrade e Silva

http://tiagonmas.blogspot.com/

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