Entries:
Comments:
Posts:

Loading User Information from Channel 9

Something went wrong getting user information from Channel 9

Activity Profile

Latest Achievement:

Loading User Information from MSDN

Something went wrong getting user information from MSDN

Visual Studio Achievements

Latest Achievement:

Loading Visual Studio Achievements

Something went wrong getting the Visual Studio Achievements

Silverlight is Ready for Business

Posted: Mar 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM
By: Adam Kinney
Avg Rating: 5

(1)
49,773 Views
15 Comments
reddit

Tweet

14 minutes, 19 seconds

format
< > embed
+ queue

Sign In first to access your queue.
Close

Sorry, video was not added to the queue, an error occurred. Please Contact Us and let us know.
Close

Embed code for this video

Copy the code above to embed our video on your website/blog.

Video format

Option selected may change based on video formats available and browser capability.

Auto
Use our suggested format for this video.
Smooth Streaming
Adaptive bitrate streaming - little buffering but lower video quality at times of low bandwidth. Silverlight 5 required
Progressive
Traditional buffered video format. Silverlight 5 required
HTML5
For browsers that support H.264 MP4 or WebM video playback such as:
IE9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome 5+, or Safari 4+.
Flash
For browsers that have the Adobe Flash Player plugin installed.

Download

Right click “Save as…”

High Quality WMV (PC, Xbox, MCE)

File size
199.9 MB
MP3 (Audio only)

File size
6.6 MB
MP4 (iPod, Zune HD)

File size
62.6 MB
Mid Quality WMV (Lo-band, Mobile)

File size
49.1 MB

As proclaimed by Ward Bell from IdeaBlade, "Silverlight is Ready for Business". Business Application development, that is.

Ward walks us through a quick demonstration of building an entity model, querying and displaying data in an editable Silverlight Datagrid. This is all done using their DevForce Silverlight tool which makes this easy but also adds extra functionality like client-side caching binding to anonymous types.

My favorite feature, though, is the ability to run LINQ statements from within the client without having to touch the server. In the rich client application world, this makes development a lot easier and my giddy-ness in the video is genuine not pre-planned.

Follow the Discussion

Follow
Oops, something didn't work.

Try again?

Sign In to be begin to follow these comments

What does this mean?
Following an item on Channel 9 allows you to watch for new content and comments that you are interested in. You need to be signed in to Channel 9 to use this feature.

Getting "follow" information

Stop following these comments

Start following these comments

What does this mean?
Following an item on Channel 9 allows you to watch for new content and comments that you are interested in and view them all on your notifications page.

Removing your "follow"

Setting up your "follow"

Did you know you can
sign up for email notifications?
- Subscribe to this comments

vesuvius Count Orlock

Mar 11, 2009 at 1:13 AM

I guess the issue not addresses hitherto is the fact the the MVVM requires quite a lot of coding, if you add that to the XAML you are having to code, then your developers have very short fingers.

This like Linq is very suspicious to me, it just looks too easy. when people are used to having to create ADO data services or WCF services, this really does look way too easy, so a very well done to IdeaBlade.
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Mar 11, 2009 at 8:13 AM

Can Silverlight run outside of the browser?

I've been looking into this question, and as far as I can tell, Silverlight cannot run outside of the browser. At least, MS is not making it easy for people to do that.

Is this true?
Ben Hayat

Mar 11, 2009 at 9:56 AM

Stay tuned!

..Ben
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Hey, please share you know

I figure it wouldn't be too hard since Silverlight is already an ActiveX control. I was just curious why MS is not more vocal about it since AIR already does it.

I'm more looking forward to use Silverlight as a Click-Once (traditional) replacement. With its tiny footprint it's very exciting if the desktop is opened to us devs.
stevo_ Human after all

Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Minh the reason silverlight doesn't work outside the browser isn't because Microsoft are purposely making it hard to, its because it currently whores the browser out to do its http request work.
vesuvius Count Orlock

Mar 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Why not just run it as a full on WPF application. The object model for the two is similar, if you want an application out of browser then a WPF application that is less restricted seems to me the better choice.

Is it a bird or is it a bee, i.e. is it a web application or a desktop application?
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Mar 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Minh the reason silverlight doesn't work outside the browser isn't because Microsoft are purposely making it hard to, its because it currently *s the browser out to do its http request work.

stevo_ I really don't think this is the case. Because http requests are just TCP connections, right? And those are already supported natively in Windows, so Silverlight wouldn't have to do much... Just a wrapper on top of the existing networking stack.

I think MS is slow to support Silverlight stand-alone is that they would have to build an entire infrastructure, from Visual Studi to Win32 runtime to support it. Maybe they're just really busy.
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Mar 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM

Why not just run it as a full on WPF application.

Vesuvius,

A WPF app requires Vista, or a HUGE download on XP. So a Silverlight runtime weighing in at 6MB is really attractive for a RIA.
codan I didn't do it.

Mar 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM

This is indeed impressive. But, until Silverlight supports printing, I can not agree with the assertion that Silverlight is ready for business.
stevo_ Human after all

Mar 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM

Minh this is the case, silverlight runs on more than just windows, however this may change in future versions - its definately possible that silverlight could wrap the networking infrastructure that exists on each operating system.. I just think they picked a reasonable compromize to use the browsers built in networking abstraction.
chrisghardwick

Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Silverlight is ready for business, but this video is not. Did anyone else think the code screenshots were fuzzy?
AdamKinney Agent of Change

Mar 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Well I'm glad the more important point came across ok.

This video has been switched over to the highest bitrate version but if you're viewing it via the inline video player fullscreen then its scaled. The best quality would be to download the High-Quality WMV and then watch it at its native resolution.

We should put in a feature request for a "Don't scale button". A "High Quality" toggle would be nice, too.
exoteric

Mar 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM

This looks very sweet. Not having made any WPF or Silverlight application yet, I wonder how "ready for business" WPF is, in terms of out-of-the-box styling (from the VS box or elsewhere). Okay, I was thinking about the other video about Silverlight 3...
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Mar 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM

its definately possible that silverlight could wrap the networking infrastructure that exists on each operating system..

One way to find out... plop the Silverlight ActiveX control inside a WinForm & fire off requests... I think it will do OK
AdamKinney Agent of Change

Mar 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Proof of concept: Desklighter

Remove this comment

Remove this thread

Comments Closed

Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to continue the conversation, please create a new thread in our Forums,
or Contact Us and let us know.