Nowadays flash is definitely the order of the day. We nearly forget from when it becomes today's most advanced and popular Internet multimedia feature. It can be colorful, rather dynamic, relatively compact (for multimedia content), and easily integrated into web pages or even completely replace them. It totally becomes young men's new toys.



In this field, Adobe is undoubtedly the ruler, its main product: adobe flash takes a great market share in this sort of product. It is even seems to be the depending-on tools for flash professionals. On the other hand, as a software giant, Microsoft of course will not stand by and should never ever let this situation continues. So they develop a new graphic design platform rivals to Adobe Flash ?Microsoft Silverlight in the first quarter of 2008.

Based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight enables developers and designers to create web applications easily using existing skills and tools, such as ASP.NET, Apache, PHP. Code can be written in JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Visual Basic .NET, and more.

But there is a problem with both, which grows from its genesis: the technology was created as a professional animation tool, and signs of that still exist in the majority of Flash authoring tools. Even small Flash elements are to be assembled from atomic shapes, pictures, motions, paths and so on and so on. It's kind of too time- and knowledge-consuming for novice who wants just a simple flash animation, similar with adobe flash but compatible with Silverlight platform.

Sothink Quicker for Silverlight is the way. As it has remained the fundamentals of creating elements in Flash, such as timeline, library, drawing method, Sothink Quicker for Silverlight is emerged as an advanced, low cost but easy to master option for Silverlight animation design. With Sothink Quicker for Silverlight, both professionals and novices can create interactive contents for websites and applications.

It can be used to accomplish Silverlight Animations, convert your SWF into Microsoft Silverlight, create games, Internet applications, User interfaces...

And, of course, there's the inevitable disappointment with the stuff Sothink hasn't changed, such as the poor print layout controls and embarrassingly primitive text handling. Performance conclusions will have to wait for final code, etc.

Sothink people scream "I'm going to make your life quicker and easier!?, Which is still need to be checked by time and user. But there is one thing we should not suspect: a tool that combines the characteristics of both Adobe and Silverlight is surely worth trying!