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Any real Silverlight projects? [closed]

Appart from projects funded/pushed by MS itself, are there any real-world examples of projects that opted for Silverlight?

What were your experiences? Learning curve? Advantages? Resources? Pitfalls? Sacrifices?

--EDIT--
I'm most interested in the developing (team)'s story.

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Boris Callens Avatar asked Mar 09 '09 09:03

Boris Callens


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I was at a conference last week, and a number of non-MS people were telling their experiences of using Silverlight for line-of-business apps. Generally, it seemed positive. The advantage seemed that you could start with the Silverlight version, and then if you (later) needed more client control, mostly just copy the xaml and app code into WPF. mostly is important, as there are currently some glitches. But it is much harder to start with WPF and port to Silverlight ;-p

Sacrifices? Not as much power over the client. Limited framework, etc. Pitfalls? Not-quite-compatible xaml. Different IO, etc.

I can't cite specific projects, as I simply didn't write them down ;-p Besides, they might be company-private. Knowing that they exist doesn't violate NDA ;-p

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Marc Gravell Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 14:09

Marc Gravell