Mike Chambers just posted about a really cool project he’s started that lets Adobe AIR talk to native .NET/C# code. Anyone who has been following AIR knows that native extensibility is a big request. For a number of reasons it wasn’t something we could include with 1.0 and it was something a lot of people wanted to do. It even spawned the Artemis project which is a Java implementation of the same concept.

Mike’s project, CommandProxy, allows you to communicate between AIR and the OS. As Mike says, the project isn’t tied to AIR. It could work with any web/hybrid environment like Mozilla Prism. You could also do a data handoff between AIR and WPF if you wanted to. There are a ton of possibilities here.

With AIR 1.0 we’re going to let you control how you distribute the runtime and your application so you’re able to create a custom installer that will make the entire experience seamless for the end user. It works on every platform AIR runs on (Mac and Linux are supported via Mono) so it can still be a cross platform experience. Awesome stuff.

[tags]Adobe AIR, .NET, Mike Chambers, CommandProxy[/tags]

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