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I'm working on a port of Robotlegs for Silverlight in background on my spare time since February. As I'm on a Silverlight and C# learning track, I found this would be a great way to practice C# and Silverlight when it also could help the Robotlegs community.

My goal with this post is to give an insight of the project to people who asked me which is its status and real value and if it have chances to reach a final version.

This alpha contains Robotlegs for Silverlight library sources and its Unit Test project. You can launch the Unit Test runner here in live.

I'm currently working on an HelloSilverlight demo which is basically the port of the HelloFlex demo of Robotlegs for ActionScript 3.0. As it's the first real implementation of the framework outside simply passing Unit Tests, it shows that some serious changes and decisions will have to be made before a second alpha in which the demo have to be included.

The project is developed with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Edition so it guarantees that anybody can work on it with a free Visual Studio license. Visual Web Developer allows only to target Silverlight, but the project could easily be imported in Visual C# 2010 Express or Visual Studio 2010 to target WPF applications.

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Today, I attended a private Q&A session with Jeff Sutherland in Paris. For those who don't know, Jeff is one of the fathers of the Scrum development framework and helped to write the Agile Manifesto.

The session was organized by Xebia France, a training center focused on Agile methodologies used to work with him. I had the surprise to be invited last week to this special event. This was a great opportunity to meet Jeff and to better understand Scrum.

As this was a private event, we were only 30 people invited. Before it begins, my thoughts were that Jeff will only occasionally speak during the session. But Luc Legardeur CTO at Xebia took only five minutes to introduce himself, Xebia and the event. Jeff finally made all the session himself. This was, again, a good surprise, I have to thank Xebia for that.

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Today, I chosen to take the time to have a deeper look into Robotlegs micro-architecture, an ActionScript project initiated by Shaun Smith and Joel Hooks. From what I tested and as Robotlegs supports MVC, is inspired by PureMVC and that it is really well thought by its author, I'm convinced that it is a good project to look into during my spare time.

As you may know Robotlegs uses Dependency Injection. And it also uses Dependency Injection using metadata tags. In Robotlegs this is done with SwiftSuspenders a lightweight Dependency Injection library for ActionScript developed and maintained by Till Schneidereit. This means that when you want Robotlegs to automatically inject a dependency at runtime you just have to write something like :

 
public class MyClass
{
    [Inject]
    public var userProxy:UserProxy;
}
 

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I twitted this earlier in the afternoon. It seems that Adobe did not announce it for now, but some versions of the Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 can already be downloaded.

Links on the page from Adobe Labs related to Flash Player 10.1 are still pointing to Flash Player 10.1 beta 1 files at the moment. But I read a news on PCInpact.com (a French tech news website) which was untitled "Flash 10.1 Beta 2 est de sortie : NVIDIA sort de nouveaux pilotes" which means "Flash 10.1 Beta 2 is out : NVIDIA publish new drivers" in English language.

The news announce better performances, less bugs for the player, support of DLP projectors for 3D Vision and of course that new NVIDIA drivers seems to better handle Flash Player 10.1 now. Surprisingly, I found links in the news pointing to a new beta of the Flash Player 10.1. As Adobe did not announce it officially, I suppose that PCINpact had the links directly from NVIDIA.

So, while the official Flash Player 10.1 page on the Adobe Labs is not updated, you can download the new Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 version from :

• Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 for Windows plugin
• Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 for Windows ActiveX
• Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 for Mac
• Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 for Linux

Update 1 (12/15/2009): Tom Barclay (Flash Player Product Marketing at Adobe) told us in the
comments that those versions aren't final release and must not be used for testing.

Update 2 (12/16/2009): It seems that Nvidia was a bit premature on announcing those links
to their commercial partners and Adobe deactivated them. So, they don't work anymore, sorry.

Update 3 (12/18/2009): Official now, Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 final releases are available
on Adobe Labs, more infos from Tom Barclay on the Flash Platform blog (including debug releases). I reactivated the links above but you can preferably go to Adobe Labs now.

You probably not have missed the news. It was announced in the first keynote of the Adobe MAX 2009 that it would be possible to export applications for iPhone from Flash CS5.

What I missed first is that it would be possible to export Flash applications for iPhone from Flash Builder and even using some parts of the AIR SDK. You can find this written in the Flash applications for iPhone Developer FAQ.

If you miss the first announce on Flash for iPhone, here the main links:

• Adobe Labs - Adobe Flash Professional CS5- Applications for iPhone
• Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash - Adobe Developer Connection
• Flash Applications for iPhone Developer FAQ