Technologies similar to Flash and Silverlight for Desktop apps
- by M.A. Hanin
Long story short: we use Flash as a partial GUI in our .NET desktop applications.
Normally, this means that the Flash player control sits in some WinForm, playing a movie file. Changes in the real world are presented in the movie (e.g., a light-bulb turned on in the real world? a matching one will light up inside the Flash movie), and interaction…