Convert Flash movies from SWF format to Silverlight

MicroSoft SilverLight is touted to be the web developers next big thing for the web based multimedia/interactive market. It features a lot of time saving features as well as a framework that allows the developer to concentrate more on how to make his/her web visitors online experience better and memorable. Till now Adobe’s Flash had ruled the roost unchallenged by anyone and I know that’s it been around long enough to be considered the industry standard when it comes to making multimedia based websites.

Its for this reason that many developers would like to migrate their existing Flash based content to the newer SilverLight platform there are many cool Flash apps and functions that developers wished they could reuse in their SilverLight products today that wish gets answered.

SilverX is a small free software that converts Flash movies from SWF format to Silverlight ready solutions. It supports all versions and formats of Flash from ver. 5 to 10 and converts Flash movies to Silverlight 3 solutions for Visual Studio 2008 or Expression Blend 3. All the user has to do is select the input SWF file , choose an output directory, and hit `Convert’ to get a newly converted SilverLight solution.

While im sure that the developer will need to learn a lot of new tricks in order to use SilverLigt effectively. There’s no denying that with the help of this little tool, their lives just got a little bit easier and now they no longer need to start from scratch when it comes to reusing apps, videos, and perhaps even whole sites that they’ve made in Flash.

Check out these features of SilverX:

SilverX supports all basic Flash features: vector primitives, images, texts and animations, so almost all Flash movie resources get accurately converted to Silverlight.

• Vector graphics
• Solid fills
• Bitmap fills
• Linear gradient fills
• Radial gradient fills
• Bitmaps (JPEG/PNG): all bitmaps are converted to PNG format
• Line styles
• Static texts
• Dynamic texts
• HTML texts
• Shape tweening/morphing
• Animations: show/hide object, matrix transformations, color transformations

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