Silverlight is Ready for Business
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
Is it a bird or is it a bee, i.e. is it a web application or a desktop application?
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.
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.
Silverlight is ready for business, but this video is not. Did anyone else think the code screenshots were fuzzy?
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.
One way to find out... plop the Silverlight ActiveX control inside a WinForm & fire off requests... I think it will do OK
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