Shed some light on your data with SilverLight
This week I've been experimenting some with SilverLight. It could be a really interesting combination with the Windows Azure platform. Or why not use for displaying real-time data streams from SQL Server StreamInsight?
Anyway I ended up doing a simple pool game simulator. Quite far away from my idea of visualising data, but I do things for fun. I've published the source code at CodePlex so you can see how it works. Making a realistic simulation of the balls physics is not trivial.
Maybe this could be made into a real game? Would be cool to have it communicate with the Azure platform, and not only something simple such as storing a high score-list.
Why SilverLight is interesting to me:
- Good development tools - Visual Studio and Expression Blend
- Support for WCF (Windows Communicatinos Foundation), SOAP, REST, etc makes data access and communications easy
- Supported by most web browsers
- Easy to accomplish things with a few lines of code
So why not use SilverLight to shed some light on your data?
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