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TechEd Europe 2012: great talk about SignalR, the lightweight messaging system that allows you to have a real-time connections between clients or between the client and the server. Imagine visiting a web page and having everything you do appear instantaneously in the browsers of all other users that are visiting that page. Think chat clients, collaborative editing, etc.

"Lately I've been talking a lot about rich client applications written in HTML and JavaScript. These are frequently referred to as "SPAs" (Single Page Applications). I call them SPAs myself - it's cute and flows easily off the tongue. Unfortunately the phrase "single page application" badly misrepresents the true nature of this architectural style."

TechEd Europe 2012: LightSwitch is an application framework from Microsoft that takes much of the repetitive code you write in a typical application out of your hands. Very impressive. It comes with a Silverlight and a HTML5 client.

"With this post, based solely on my own opinion, I wanted to give those people the simple yes or no answer to their question, and here it is: "Is Silverlight dead 2012?" Yes, it is. IF and ONLY IF your target is Joe Blow playing FarmVille on his iPad while watching "[YourCountryHere] got talent"."