- From: Cokus, Michael S. <msc@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:06:48 -0400
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, "public-exi@w3.org" <public-exi@w3.org>
Hi Robin, Great to hear from you! Thanks much for this very interesting news. I poked around a little. According to the MIX09 website, "Binary XML" will be addressed in a session this Friday[1]. Anyone planning to attend? [1] https://content.visitmix.com/2009/sessions/default.aspx?keyword=Consuming+Web+Services+in+Microsoft+Silverlight+3 Thanks, --mike Mike Cokus The MITRE Corporation 757-896-8553; 757-826-8316 (fax) 903 Enterprise Parkway Hampton, VA 23666 >-----Original Message----- >From: public-exi-request@w3.org [mailto:public-exi-request@w3.org] On >Behalf Of Robin Berjon >Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:19 AM >To: public-exi@w3.org >Subject: Heads up: Silverlight 3 > >Hi folks! > >I just thought I'd send you a heads up in case you haven't seen this: >one of the features touted on the shortlist of improvements for >Silverlight 3 is that it integrates "Binary XML" which can be used to >communicate with the server and other instances of the client. > >I tried looking for details but as usual searching MSDN and the likes >has proven only moderately successful. I suspect it's just using WCF's >binary XML format, but could neither confirm nor deny. > >Either way, Microsoft's position that they only saw value in binary >XML for very specific tightly integrated situations (e.g. as a >compilation format for XAML or as the protocol between SQL Server and >its clients) seems to have changed since presumably Silverlight is >expected to communicate in all manners of situations with all sorts of >servers for a large variety of usage scenarios. It's certainly a data >point to keep in mind during PR. > >TTFN! > >-- >Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ > Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ > > > > >
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