A couple of days ago, I was watching this small Silverlight vs. Flash: Stray Sheep sample and perceived something strange in the rendering. If you pay attention to the Silverlight implementation you'll notice that the sheep gets blurry in one of the frames. So, as many of my clients asked me a lot of times about this issue with bitmaps in Silverlight and WPF applications, I'll try to explain the technology concept behind this "undesired" side-effect of device rendering.

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It seems that nowadays we have two big players on the RIA framework/tools market willing to win the battle: the older and experienced Adobe and the newer but powerful Microsoft. Sometimes it's quite difficult to see the differences in both of them, but it's even harder when they have more than a single framework tool for it. After looking through my visitor statistics and search keywords I've decided to write a bit about some of the differences and how I see them so it may keep simpler for some of you to decide or clear your mind.

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I've just finished my presentation at CLM.NET User Group and I've uploaded the presentation to SlideShare so all of you can enjoy it. It would also be uploaded to the Presentations section of this web (when I finish it) with the video, audio, slides and demos all together in a pack.

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