SilverX 1.5 product line has just been released and is now available for download. The new version introduces the following features:
- Support for Expression Blend 4 and Silverlight 4 output
- Output to WPF and Windows Phone platform
- Major XAML readability improvements and reduced XAML size
- Dramatically increased performance and reduced memory usage
- SilverX is now fully managed .NET application
We split SilverX up into two different products SilverX and SilverX Expression to best serve people with different requirements. The descriptions below explain the differences between the two products.
SilverX is a standalone application for converting simple Flash movies to Silverlight/WPF, extracting Flash media (graphics, vector art, sound and animations) in Silverlight/WPF-compatible format or converting Flash movie into Visual Studio project.
SilverX Expression is a Microsoft Expression Blend addin for importing Flash assets into Expression Blend project. SlverX Expression facilitates importing entire Flash movie into the project with an opportunity to tune the Flash to Silverlight conversion settings. We believe that we have improved import/migration experience by providing more import options:
- Flash assets preview, select and import Flash assets
- Media format and quality settings
- XAML generation settings – formatting, composition
- Give names to imported elements, automatic naming options
- Import individual Flash frames and more
We made SilverX available in two editions to meet the needs of different audiences. At the same time the core functionality is basically the same in both products, that is why currently they also have the same price.
SilverX products are now distributed as trial installer packages with no functionality restrictions. Product trial time is 14 days. We still provide free non-commercial SilverX licenses, so if you are going to use SilverX for non-profit purposes please feel free to contact us.
Now we are working on SilverX Expression 2.0 which will make Flash to Silverlight migration process in Expression Blend more flexible and convenient. In the beginning of 2011 we plan to start working on support of ActionScript 3 conversion and Flash runtime emulation in Silverlight.
We hope you will enjoy this release, and please feel free to post your comments or contact us directly. Your opinion is very important for us, and we will highly appreciate any of your feedback.
I still can not get the SilverX Expression demo to work, no response after three emails for help last week. The one-click SilverX converter worked fine as a stand alone, but there is no File menu option to import Flash files using SilverX Expression with Microsoft Expression Blend 4? My demo time has almost ended. Please help me try your product, if it works as well as the converter I will be happy, so far no luck though? thx
Hi Gary,
Thank you for this comment. We received all you three emails and responded to them. So that is strange you did not received our emails.
So I will write my response again. To make SilverX Expression work you need to have the _latest_ Microsoft Expression Blend installed.
Please install latest available Expression Blend distribution package from Microsoft web site and then install the latest SilverX Expression
from our web site.
Please do not wonder about trial period ending. We will give you enough time to evaluate the product as soon as you will get it
working.
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Best regards,
Roman Petrov
SilverX Team
Can SilverX, convert modular flex apps to Silverlight apps? What are its limits?
Hi Davorian,
SilverX currently converts Flash files without ActionScript and supports only frame-based
animation. So Flex applications currently not supported.