The innovative minds over at Identity Mine have release a beta of Desklighter, their utility as part of their Blendables product family to create Silverlight applications that run outside of the browser.

"Desklighter is a windows utility that will create a “Desklight” from Silverlight xap file. The Desklight is a standalone exe application that renders Silverlight content that is easily portable and accessible. With Desklighter, you can share your Silverlight applications without having to worry about the hosting infrastructure. Distribute your Silverlight content whenever and wherever you need it. The possibilities are endless."

This concept creates a lot of very interesting possibilities, especially in the area of disconnected applications. Back when I saw how the New York Time created a special host on the Mac for their Silverlight based Times Reader, I really started to think about the potential.

With all of this comes many questions about functionality, so I'm curious to see how things work.

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Adam Kinney recently announced the launch of a new Channel 9 series called <DeepVoice Echo="High">The Continuum Show</DeepVoice> in which he takes a look at many of the exciting new technologies from Microsoft that are pushing the limits of traditional applications on the web and desktops through technologies such as WPF, Silverlight, and ASP.NET

"This is the beginning of a new show on Channel 9 focused on the world of UI technologies available from Microsoft.  This includes some of your favorites like WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression, IE8 and more.  We'll be showing new features, patterns and practices from experts and samples of inspirational applications. "

Episode 0 gives an intro

Episode 1 looks at the MVC Framework with Phil Haack

Episode 2 details the NBCOlympics.com video player

This space is getting really exciting. Great job Adam! I look forward to seeing more.

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