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What is the difference between WPF and Silverlight?
Is it just the same as winforms vs asp as in desktop apps versus web app or is there an overlap?
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However, some industries still rely on WPF concepts and tools like XAML & MVVM to develop futuristic web, mobile, and desktop applications. None of Microsoft's GUI frameworks ever really die. WPF has top-notch performance, with a high level of customization, and if you aim for Windows, both WPF is critical.
WPF uses XAML, which is a language based on XML, to declare the user interface elements. In a simple WPF app, the . xaml file describes the GUI and the code-behind file describes the logic. DirectX is used to draw whatever is described in the .
Silverlight has a considerable advantage over HTML5 in that 90 to 95 percent of code can be shared with desktop applications. If you have a full-fledged desktop application and a solution to get on the Web, it's easier with the Silverlight model.
WPF is a very rich UI framework which is used by developers to build Windows desktop applications. It comes with built-in support for graphics, resources, data binding and much other. It makes use of Extensible Markup Language to define views and it does it in a declarative way.
Silverlight is a subset of the functionality in WPF. WPF is desktops, silverlight is cross-platform web apps. Silverlight can run out-of-browser with limited functionality. if you want full blown WPF and access to everything WPF can access on the client, you can't do silverlight out-of-browser - just build a WPF app.
WPF and silverlight use XAML at its core to describe the layout. There is a MS document that highlights the differences between the two. I just can't find it right now.
WPF is not dead like some bloggers are reporting. Due to its web and cross-platform capabilities it is doubtful SL will ever truly contain 100% of the functionality of its bigger brother WPF. WPF includes some very Windows-specific functionality.
Found the document mentioned above. Here it is...
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