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Microsoft Tafiti opens the source code door

Tafiti is one of the cooler (if not most useful) examples of Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.
Written by Ryan Stewart, Contributor

Tafiti is one of the cooler (if not most useful) examples of Microsoft Silverlight 1.0. It's a search engine that allows you to search between media and regular results all while providing a fluid experience. They're now open sourcing it under the Microsoft Public License.

There are quite a few small Silverlight examples out there but I haven't seen code for anything large. Tafiti provides the source code for a meatier application as well as showing how to combine Silverlight and Live services (something I think will be very popular as Microsoft opens up their APIs. It also might be a good example of best practices for Silverlight, something that's just starting to come up.

Previous coverage of Tafiti.

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