Great Features of Flash 11

10/30/2012

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The latest version of Flash,i.e Flash player 11, has a lot of cool features. Features which can help build fabulous applications and which make working easy and convenient as well. Mindfire’s flash development India team has people who have good expertise in all the latest features and have developed applications for clients using these features.


Below I have listed down the list of features which were new in the latest release (source Adobe website).
Concurrency (ActionScript workers)

Developers can create more responsive content by offloading tasks (high-latency operations and long-running computations) to background "workers" that run concurrently to leverage more machine resources.
Webcam support for StageVideo

Utilize GPU acceleration to render webcam video streams with better performance.


Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering

Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps.
Native 64-bit support

Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®.
Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)

Protect streaming video across devices without the complexity of a license server.
Multi-threaded video decoding

Deliver live streaming and real-time interactive video with improved playback performance and increased frame rates of high bit rate content running on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.


Enhanced mouse controls and relative coordinates

Create immersive, panoramic games for new classes of content, including first-person games that take advantage of infinite scrolling, mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, and right- and middle-click events.
Secure random number generator

Developers can now take advantage of cryptographically secure random number generation to build more secure algorithms and protocols.
JPEG-XR support

Support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2) provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.
High-efficiency SWF compression support

Take advantage of LZMA compression to reduce SWF file sizes by up to 40%, enabling users to benefit from richer experiences with shorter download times and reduced bandwidth consumption.
New removeChildren API

DisplayObjectContainer now implements a removeChildren API allowing developers to quickly remove all of a container’s children using a single API call.
New MovieClip property

Take advantage of the new MovieClip.isPlaying property, which returns the MovieClip's current playing state.
Native text input UI (mobile)

Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on Android, BlackBerry Tablet, and iOS operating systems, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and text selection.
At Mindfire Flash application development has been going on for more than 6 years now and we have good exposure to all earlier versions as well as the new features of the latest version. We have one of the best flash development teams in India. We have built applications for varied industries like Social media applications, Elearning industry, Games etc.

To know more about our expertise in Flash development services India or Hire Flash developers, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.
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Building Great Line-Of-Business Applications using Silverlight 5

10/26/2012

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Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating highly engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, Desktop and mobile applications when online or offline. With the release of Silverlight 5, a host of new features are available to Silverlight Rich Internet Application developers as well as businesses that use Silverlight. This enables users of Silverlight to create a project in 3D, make effective use of OpenType features such as ligatures, stylistic sets and contextual alternate in Silverlight thereby providing excellent support for rendering OpenType fonts and helps create native operating system windows along with customizing the chrome of those windows. Some more features of Silverlight 5 include low latency sound effects, multi column and Linked Text by making use of RichTextBoxOverflow to enable text to flow in columns or a free-form layout and finally, capture double click, or even an arbitrary number of clicks by introducing the concept of a click count.

Silverlight is indeed a very powerful tool which is both platform and browser agnostic and provides a cross platform version of the .NET framework. Most importantly, the ease of deploying Silverlight runtime to clients makes a much favored tool for creating Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight 5 brings a gamut of new features to the table for developers building marketing, media and line-of-business (LOB) applications. While Silverlight 5 is a very handy tool for executing 3D projects, enhancing audio and video features, and providing 64-bit support, it offers a sea of benefits for Line-of-business application developers. These benefits include enhanced data binding, better debugging, implicit data template support, vector printing to name a few.

In order to build appealing applications for Web, Desktop and Mobile you must therefore have to choose an ideal technology partner who has an in-depth understanding of your technology needs as well as has the ability to grasp your business requirements. Mindfire Solutions is a leading service company which provides a large number of services on the Silverlight platform and has skills to serve each of your needs as a Silverlight Consultant and a Silverlight Development Partner. Some of our service offerings in the Silverlight area are as follows - Silverlight Development, EMR/EHR Applications, Custom Silverlight Application development, WCF RIA services for Silverlight, Silverlight Dashboard development, Web Portal development using Silverlight, Plugins development, Maintenance and Support services etc.

Mindfire Solutions has extensive hands on experience in customizing Silverlight applications for clients belonging to various domains, thus enabling them to leverage the complete portfolio offerings of Silverlight. Also, Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold certified partner thus adding to our credentials. Our Silverlight development history spans more than 5 years and we have experience in developing a variety of Silverlight Applications catering to various industries. As your trusted Silverlight application development Partner, the skilled Silverlight development professionals at Mindfire Solutions are dedicated to equal importance to both implementing technology as well as understanding your business environment. This astute dedication ensures that your application is built according to your needs while still following the industry standards required for your implementation to succeed.

If you are in need of Silverlight programmers who have great experience in developing Silverlight applications to execute your silverlight development services efficiently then look no further than Mindfire Solutions, your trusted Silverlight partner. call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com. We will be glad to help you.
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