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I recently visited a website that was quite astounding. Not only did the site load with blazing speed, it left me in amazement as its dazzling animations rolled across the screen. Fancy stuff ... Okay, this page was not usable, only cool. Jakob Nielsen wrote more than once how to make flash pages usable for users with disabilities [1]. There are lots of best practices for design of Flash-based User Interfaces. The best thing is, it is really simple to use Flash to build Web-based UIs. What about Win-based? Hmmh, why not ... The key message is: your web designer friends design flashy UIs all the time. You use your beloved .NET dev environment to build powerfull dynamic applications. Why not join the forces and create fancy skinnable WinForm applications from scratch in just few minutes? If you want to change the look of your application, you simply need to replace the .swf file. There's no need to recompile the .NET application. Peter Koen, IL Guru and my dear friend, wrote a great introduction [2] to Flash for .NET developers. Let's get .NET Flashy ;-)

[1] "How to make Flash usable" http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/flash/
[2] "Flash for .NET Developers" http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/21033