what is it

4/27/2008 9:53:08 PM

another attempt for microsoft to take over the world.

4/27/2008 9:54:13 PM

oh

ok

4/27/2008 9:55:14 PM

silverlight is the web form of WPF. what is WPF? microsoft's framework for rich application development.

4/27/2008 9:56:26 PM

What is microsoft's framework for rich application development? shit.

4/27/2008 9:58:30 PM

i actually like it. i've been using it at work for a few months. it's a lot easier than traditional winforms development. wpf is still a pretty young technology, but there's a lot of smart people working on it

4/27/2008 10:14:44 PM

i mean

i see its available for download...is there any reason I, just a normal web surfer, would care to have it installed

[Edited on April 27, 2008 at 10:18 PM. Reason : I not me]

4/27/2008 10:17:33 PM

no

it's kinda like Flash². if you need it, your browser will tell you. speaking of flash, adobe's competing framework to WPF is called AIR and the silverlight analog is called Flex

[Edited on April 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM. Reason : i haven't seen any mainstream sites that use either technology yet]

4/27/2008 10:18:37 PM

The olympics this year will be entirely silverlight powered. All the realtime streaming video, websites et al.

It'll be interesting to see how well it handles everything.

4/27/2008 11:46:33 PM

i know our company is looking heavily into utilzing it. im interested to learn more.

4/28/2008 12:19:33 AM

^Below is a link for the first chapter of a Silverlight training text my company has written. The actual text is 2 days (16 hours) and sells for $100.00. I have watermarked electronic evaluation copies as well if you are interested.

http://www.itcourseware.com/Webpdfs/weboi-silver.pdf

4/28/2008 10:18:44 AM

i like flex/AIR a whole lot better than silverlight & WPF.

4/28/2008 10:55:28 AM

you would

4/28/2008 10:56:40 AM

They each have pretty big advantages, depending on your development environment, deployment platforms and nature of the application. Flex/AIR has some pretty severe limitations, but it's also much lower a learning curve for web delivered content.

4/28/2008 11:13:53 AM

silverlight is going to replace javascript

yes i said replace it. somebody please prove me wrong.

4/28/2008 3:22:05 PM

.NET on my cellphone? -shudder-

4/28/2008 3:26:45 PM

how do you make something full screen in Silverlight? alt+enter doesnt work, f11 doesnt work, and right clicking on the window only gives me one option

4/28/2008 4:27:14 PM

^there's no global "full screen button". If the silverlight app doesnt support full-screen, you cant do it.

Quote :

"silverlight is going to replace javascript yes i said replace it. somebody please prove me wrong."

Silverlight is a platform, javascript is a web-browser client scripting language. Apples and Oranges.

Quote :

".NET on my cellphone? -shudder-"

Compact framework. Silverlight runs MUCH better on mobile devices than Flash does.

4/28/2008 5:26:24 PM

Quote :

"Silverlight is a platform, javascript is a web-browser client scripting language. Apples and Oranges."

ok. whew. i only said that originally b/c a respected developer i knew said that

maybe i took him out of context.

4/28/2008 9:01:36 PM

You could maybe say Silverlight will replace the DOM, or Silverlight will replace (x)html, but both would be stupid assertions. The same was said when Flash hit the bigtime, every flash developer thought html was doomed, because OMG flash is awesome.

4/28/2008 9:05:16 PM