Some a you asked us for creating a SilverLight sample of our PowerPoint-alike demo.

We did it and more! You may now download the whole source code of this sample application. 

As I said in a previous post, this is not a state of the art application, it has been developed by junior developers during last summer.

Here is the link to the demo  and here to the source code.

Enjoy!

We learned a few months ago that Google intended to launch a PowerPoint-alike web application, created with their own technologies (GWT). Well, it gave us an idea… Why don't we try to develop a PowerPoint-alike user interface using GOA WinForms…

During the GOA Coding Summer, a junior developer started to prototype the user interface of Microsoft’s PowerPoint well known product. The deal was to develop a Flash Graphical User Interface the closest possible to the original software in the Windows environment.

He did it! He achieved this goal by creating from scratch this never seen WEB 2.0 PowerPoint alike interface. Moreover, he also implemented basic functionalities such as moving pictures, text editing, changing text styles, the view menu, etc.

Beyond this great achievement, what’s important to point out is the fact that we are speaking of a junior developer, learning the technology and using GOA WinForms Pro which is still in Alpha release. This makes me think that we are going to create truly great RIAs using GOA in the next few years!

And now, let’s launch a challenge to Google; will their AJAX interface be as user friendly, as performing and as cross-browsers as ours?

Here is NETiKA TECH's GOA Coding Summer PowerPoint-alike RIA.

Well, you all waited for this information be publicly released. It's done!
Please find here the full pricing description.

I had a discussion yesterday night in a restaurant with two nerds teasing me about Silverlight. This leads me to think we have to clarify some points... That's the reason why I'm going to try to answer objectively to this obvious question: "Why should YOU use GOA WinForms?"

Well, all of you understood that GOA WinForms was not producing Silverlight apps the way Microsoft would and that we were using the Canvas to host our own container: WinFormHost.
This means that GOA WinForms controls:
- have to be hosted in the WinFormHost,
- cannot overlap other not GOA controls.

These are technical consequences of our strategy, which may look at first sight, quite strange and not compatible with Microsoft's vision. Without any hesitation I answer you that our philosophy is compatible and work hand in hand with Microsoft's strategy of going ahead from WinForms to WPF and from WPF to Silverlight.

This must be clear: we are going to provide WinForms developers an alternative way to start, now, creating RIA targeting Silverlight or Flash. The alternative being: use your already existing - deep & rich - knowledge of WinForms to create, right now, Silverlight/Flash apps with a zero learning path.
That's the main reason why GOA WinForms is an implementation of the standard System.Windows.Form .NET library.

So, will every WinForms developer start using GOA to create beautiful, rich, fast and magnificent RIAs? Well, while it sounds great to my ears, future will not be like that... GOA WinForms convince:
- Developers who don't want to do "one more move in the application development history" and use the full potential of their knowhow.
- Developers who have to provide rapidly a professionnal RIA using Flash or Silverlight, without having to learn WPF/Silverlight/Blend/Orcas, without having to start prototyping, etc.

I hope this "lights up" our strategy and way of thinking the Next Web.