A common technical decision nowadays is whether to build a ClickOnce rich client application or a web application.
Here I'm focussing primarily on choosing between a WPF application or a Silverlight application.
The chief benefit of Silverlight is obvious - it can be hosted in a browser.
But, if a programmer used to WPF was to start programing in Silverlight, what would he/she suddenly find is not possible or much harder?
Items can be of the following:
Examples I've stumbled on so far:
What others?
Programmatic Differences Between Silverlight and WPF, A Whitepaper by Wintellect, LLC:
http://wpfslguidance.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=28278
69 Pages, covers almost everything.
Cross-domain restrictions - Silverlight can only access sites which allow it via crossdomain.xml or clientaccesspolicy.xml.
For example, Silverlight can't communicate directly with Twitter's API or StackOverflow RSS feeds.
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