I have an application which works fin in Wp7 and Win8. It was be developed using Silverlight. In this time I need to develop the same application for Xbox 360.
So, I found a little information that Microsoft promised SL on Xbox (for example in link
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/05/silverlight-coming-to-xbox-bringing-wp7-games-along-with-it/)
but I can't find any information about HOW I can develop application for Xbox using Silverlight.
Could someone show me a right way?
Thanks.
Silverlight SDK for Xbox hasn't been released yet (and I have no hope of coming soon) :-(
Take a look at this website:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers
especialy at the bottom near Registered Developer Program and/or Tools and Middleware.
You need to get registered/licence with Microsoft to make apps for the Xbox360.
Im not sure if they let any random company make a App for their Xbox, but you can try.
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Of course you can port your code. Depending on how complex your app is, it still might need some rewriting as many APIs are not available anymore, have changed or were added.
Maybe these links help you:
Move from WPF and Microsoft Silverlight to WinRT on MSDN
UWP Bridge tool by Mobilize.NET
UWP samples by Microsoft on Github
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise version enables WPF apps
Is there anyway to insert the MS Pubcenter Ads into a WPF 4.0 C# application. If so, please show me step by step how.
The pubcenter does not support ads within anything other than WP7 or Win8 apps. Hopefully this will change to include standard desktop apps as we have a moderately successful game on WP7 that I would like to integrate ad support for and release on the desktop, but for now we'll need to look elsewhere for desktop ad revenue. I haven't found a solution yet either, unfortunately, so if anyone has a suggestion I'd like to hear it too.
I've heard that Windows Phone 7's user interface (UI) is completely based on Silverlight. Can anybody confirm this? Or it is implemented by other frameworks?
Windows Phone 7 will support developing apps in either Silverlight or XNA.
Are you asking if the shell, etc that comes on the phone itself is written in Silverlight? My first question would be "why does it matter what Microsoft used?" It's probably a good bet that they leveraged it, but I doubt they did everything in SL. At some point they have to get down to the OS. For example, I doubt the built-in media player core or Office apps are SL.
Looking at the unlocked emulator image contents would certainly let you deduce which parts were developed with what technologies. I leave that exercise to you.
Indeed Silverlight is used for third-party apps on Windows Phone 7, plus XNA is supported too as mentioned.
However the Office apps and some first-party applications are written using the Iris framework which is an internal only developer framework similar to WPF, it is the same framework used for the Zune Software (Dorado) which is used to sync to a Windows Phone 7 device.
Yes it is based on Silverlight
I can tell you one thing, they are using Expression Blend (or a modified version of it) for parts of the core UI design. You can see the developers using this on one of their promo videos.
If I want to develop for Windows Phone 7, what should I learn? XNA, Silverlight or other?
Microsoft has not yet announced what the development environment will be. They say they'll get more in-depth at MIX. If I were a betting man, I'd guess you'll get XNA out of the box, followed by some light version of Silverlight.
EDIT
I'd say it's no longer a guess that it will be Silverlight and XNA just based on the MIX sessions for Windows Phone.
If you want to make applications (or even simple games), choose silverlight. If you want to make 3d games, or games with xbox live integration, choose xna :-)
Does anyone know of any commercial web sites that currently use Silverlight other than Microsoft's own sites?
The silverlight site has a huge showcase gallery, you can check that out.
http://silverlight.net/Showcase/
Netflix instant streaming.
(Incidentally, the site linked above doesn't work on my machine. Yay for completely ignoring web standards!)
I like AOL's webmail client.
http://ria.mail.aol.com/
It is still in beta, but it is fast.
I found another awesome Silverlight webmail client - called Silvermail:
http://silvermail.com.au
It's pretty slick and really fast, and it is totally free for use in the public domain... I use it with gmail because our corporate firewall won't let me check email while at work, plus I find the gmail interface too confusing... Silvermail is really simple.
A couple of friends have used it successfully for POP3 and it also works with Hotmail and Yahoo.
This Silverlight site used to work with Moonlight in the 2008, 2009 era--that was at least 2 versions of Moonlight ago: http://www.recreation.gov/camping/Furnace_Creek_Ca/r/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=70978&topTabIndex=CampingSpot . I just downloaded the latest version of Moonlight 3.99.0.3 and it doesn't work. Silverlight is used just for the map option, so click on the button labelled Facility Map. It is just about in the center of the first page (top to bottom and side to side).