Blazing Fast AOL Mail with Silverlight

Posted By: Joshua Allen | Mar 5th, 2008 @ 3:44 PM

During today's keynote, AOL showed off a blazingly fast webmail client based on Silverlight. Some people didn't believe that this was an actual live demo, flipping through thousands of contacts and mails almost instantly. But this was real code running against their production mail servers -- the same servers that host tens of millions of active users. You can sign up to get access and test this new webmail client by visiting http://ria.mail.aol.com.

For some more details about how AOL envisioned and built this application in a matter of months, I sat down with Roy and Eric from AOL. They talk about how they used Visio for wireframing, and drill into some of the business value they see from the enhanced user experiences that Silverlight enables.

In addition to the demo here, you can see the footage from the keynote demo of AOL's mail client.

Tags: AOL, MIX08, silverlight

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드디어 마이크로소프트의 여러가지 다양한 소식과 기술들을 전달하는 장으로써 큰 행사중 하나인 MIX08이 시작되고, 키노트가 진행되었습니다. MIX08의 가장 큰 화두 두가지는 단연

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bhargett

What are the specs of the machine that the email client was demoed on?

Pcube

Amazing speed! Never seen over 1000 records being scrolled so fast! Wonder what's different in Silverlight that makes this app work so fast. Anyone knows?

If this is the result of working with Silverlight then I see a lot of adopters for this exciting tool!

allenjs

EricTN: only when it's spam Smiley

BHargett, Pcube: That demo was running against live AOL web mail service, over the Venetian wireless, on an HP laptop. The trick is twofold -- first is that with Silverlight 2, the code is compiled and JITed C#, so the data structures in memory are really fast. Second is that they use Silverlight's protected isolated storage to cache things -- similar conceptually to the browser cache, but a lot more flexible and powerful.

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