Microsoft's Silverlight product was launched in April 2007 and has
evolved quickly to become a powerful framework for the creation of the
latest generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Silverlight is an extensive web browser plug-in that allows web
browsers to host desktop-like .NET applications. These applications
are created in a very similar manner to the way in which traditional
(rich-client) desktop applications are built. This means quicker,
more effective application development and richer browser applications
– especially for database-centric applications vital to the running of
an enterprise – often referred to as Line of Business (LOB)
applications.

Silverlight applications are created using Visual Studio – the
foremost and by far the most widely used development environment
worldwide. The development process (both application programming and
debugging) is very similar to that used when creating rich client
applications. This provides a far superior development process to
that used in traditional web application development and allows much
richer, more responsive and visually stimulating LOB applications to
be easily created by any developer familiar with Visual Studio.

BlueFinity's Solution Objects, part of mv.NET, allows .NET developers
to easily create powerful, nested data aware business objects-based
access layers to MultiValue databases. In line with BlueFinity's
mission to provide state-of-the art Microsoft centric tool-sets,
Solution Objects has been enhanced to generate access layers that are
able to run within the Silverlight browser environment. This means
that Silverlight applications are able to access MultiValue data via
industry standard interfaces and allows the full power of
Silverlight's excellent data binding technology to be used against
MultiValue data.

The Solution Objects access layer handles all aspects of MultiValue
database interaction within the Silverlight application in an
efficient and intuitive manner. This allows the developer to focus on
creating the presentation and business logic layer of the application
and utilize all of the many powerful user interface features of
Silverlight within their application.

Microsoft has successfully encouraged the growth of a vibrant 3rd
party tools vendor development community for the .NET environment.
This has had the effect of significantly broadening the breadth of
technology available to .NET application developers. Best of breed
components ranging from data input, data visualization, mapping, inter-
systems communications and many more are all available off-the-shelf
at low cost. This allows organizations to save significant
development time and expenditure on the creation of underlying utility
code and focus on revenue generating or cost saving business
solutions. Over the past 2 years, this 3rd party component vendor
community has turned its efforts to creating Silverlight enabled
tools, which has resulted in a superb range of application enhancing
technology for this environment.

Any existing MultiValue-based application can be lifted above the
competition using Silverlight and mv.NET without needing to move away
from tried, tested and trusted MultiValue database technology or
existing business logic. Solution Objects allows you to retain
existing investment in MultiValue-BASIC application code and, where
necessary, enhance business logic within the .NET environment, while
offering the ability to create application interfaces using the very
latest industry standard RIA technology.

In summary, .NET, Silverlight and mv.NET together provide the tools to
allow you to future-proof your MultiValue application, incorporate non-
MultiValue programmers into your development teams and deliver cutting-
edge, visually compelling browser-based applications. All of this is
based on industry standard technology at a cost which makes it
affordable for even the tightest of development budgets.

Silverlight support within Solution Objects will be available for
developers with the formal release of Visual Studio 2010, which has
been scheduled by Microsoft for April 2010.

For more information email sales (AT) bluefinity (DOT) com.