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Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

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Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

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Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

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Adam Kinney — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:31:35 GMT

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Minh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:31:44 GMT

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 :-)

Re: Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Bent Rasmussen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:10:51 GMT

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...

Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Adam Kinney — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:12:39 GMT

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.

Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

chrisghardwick — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:54:00 GMT

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

Re: Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

stevo_ — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:02:07 GMT

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.

Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

codan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:53:59 GMT

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

Re: Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Minh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:31:22 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Minh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:30:01 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

vesuvius — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:01:49 GMT

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?

Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

stevo_ — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:18:03 GMT

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.

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Minh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:04:29 GMT

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.

Re: Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Ben Hayat — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:56:25 GMT

Stay tuned! :-)

..Ben

Re: Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

Minh — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:13:49 GMT

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?

Re: Silverlight is Ready for Business

vesuvius — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:13:49 GMT

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.