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  Streamlink for Silverlight for Mobile

  Phil Leggetter 5:10 pm on 4th August, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: c#, Comet (23), Financial Ajax (5), Real-time web (23), Silverlight (6), StreamLink (4), UX (14), Windows Mobile (2)

  With the recent release of Caplin’s Streamlink for Silverlight it’s exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices.

  The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile phones. Developers will be able to easily optimize Silverlight applications for mobile form factors or run existing Silverlight applications on mobile phones.

  The great thing about this release is that any existing Silverlight applications should work on any mobile device with Silverlight installed. The question about this is that if you design a user interface for a desktop browser how will it fit on a windows mobile browser? Well, Microsoft plan to give developers the ability to “optimize Silverlight applications for mobile form factors” which sounds like they will give us a way of dealing with the obvious UI differences between desktop and mobile platforms, as well as the underlying runtime issues.

  We’ve already blogged about what impact Silverlight may have on single dealer portals. I’m really excited to see what developers can do using StreamLink for Silverlight to enable the real-time web on a windows mobile device. What opportunities might Streamlink for Silverlight Mobile enable?

  

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  Getting realtime data into Excel

  dom 6:00 pm on 30th June, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: c#, Excel, Microsoft (5), Real-time web (23), RTD, StreamLink (4), StreamLink.NET (2), win32

  Starting with Excel 2002, Microsoft have included the RTD interface which allows Excel to poll for data. Polling seems to be a much more efficient way of getting data into Excel than the classic approach which is pushing – it’s not uncommon to find yourself pushing when Excel isn’t ready which results in lockups, inconstitencies and other undesirable effects.

  The RTD interface is small (6 methods) and Kenny Kerr has a great series of articles about RTD on his blog so I won’t repeat that information here and instead concentrate on integration to StreamLink.NET and pulling in real time data from a Caplin platform deployment.

  The following walkthrough is a short example of how to do this, there’s no error checking, logging and certainly the example is nowhere near production quality, however it does demonstrate that linking up Excel and data from the Liberator is straightforward.

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