But, of course

Apart from the fact that preloading is so 2000, it's almost weird to see that the
promotional site for VS2008 is a Flash application and not, as you might expect, a Silverlight application.

The PV3D implementation doesn't really add to the quality of the application, though. There's nothing to interact with but the navigational buttons. No clicking on trees, no walking back or front ...

There is however the "make your own" option which allows you do some mashuppy stuff with video's and voiceovers. I still don't get the meaning behind this concept, but it makes me wonder why they did it in Flash.

Edit: it looks like Microsoft came around and replaced the Flash by Silverlight.

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2 Responses to “But, of course”

1. Peter:
   June 5th, 2008
   17:09

   I’m not sure if the site is using any PV3D — looks more like the navigation was done in After Effects and exported to Flash, the panning background turns out to just be one big bitmap image.

   It is kind of strange to see Microsoft still coming out with Flash sites rather than pushing Silverlight. Remember that for their MIX conference mashup contest the rules clearly states that Flash was not to be used

2. Kristof:
   June 6th, 2008
   04:14

   You’re right on the background, it’s not PV3d at all.

   And if one DID use Flash, I suppose one would be disqualified because of “unfair advantage”
   People at my company are actually doing some Silverlight PoC right now. Will be interesting to see how non-designers cope …