Microsoft to Deliver Open Source Analytics Software for Silverlight

by Sam Dean - Mar. 12, 2010Comments (0)

At Microsoft's upcoming MIX10 conference, which starts on Monday of next week, the company plans to discuss Internet Explorer 9, its Windows Phone 7 initiatives, and an open source analytics framework for applications built with Microsoft Silverlight. In a blog post, Microsoft officials describe the open source offering as a "new extensible framework for integrating web analytics into Silverlight applications," and say "see how it addresses the challenge of tracking out-of-browser and offline application and supporting multiple analytics services simultaneously."

Mary-Jo Foley has confirmed that the software framework is open source, and writes:

"MIX 10 will be a showcase for Silverlight, especially Silverlight 4, which is due to ship in the first half of 2010. Silverlight is one of the keys to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 developer pitch, which company officials also are slated to discuss at next week’s conference."

Although not everyone realizes it, Silverlight is one of the developer platforms for Windows Phone 7 applications. You can read more about the new open source framework here.