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With windows 8 demonstrating 'native HTML 5 apps'.
The first thing that I think of is whether WPF has a place in this HTML 5 world. It kind of seems like Silverlight will stick around but I must ask : Where does WPF fit into the bigger picture microsoft is painting ?
All that's been said is that this (and where Silverlight , XNA, and C++ fit in) will be announced at the BUILD conference in September. Lots of rumors and speculation, but no announcements.
It's too early to tell. Just because Microsoft demoed a particular feature doesn't mean it's dropping everything else.
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I'd like to convert my Windows Phone app to a silverlight web app, while keeping most of the code intact (so I don't have to maintain 2 different code bases). I've never built a Silverlight website before so I'd like to get some advise on how I should go about doing this.
Thanks!
Use the MVVM pattern and have device specific views. Take a look at MVVM light wich is a good framework for MVVM.
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I have been hearing and reading lots of rumours around Silverlight 5 being the last release of Silverlight for the PC. Is this true? Is it just rumour?
Its a rumor until Microsoft announces it! :) And no announcements has been made on that.
So start by waiting for the official Silverlight 5 release. After that, we will see if Microsoft still pushes for Silverlight on PCs.
Indeed its not reassuring to see that the Plug-ins are not supported in Windows 8 Metro mode. But Silverlight will stay for sure (at least for mobiles) since its the main development platform of Windows Phone 7. They just cant abandon it.
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It seems to be that Silverlight is rarely mentioned or seen anywhere on the net these days. Even DotNetRocks rarely give any serious time to discussing this technology other than saying they "love" it.
Silverlight seems to be shifting to a development platform for Microsoft's other products. It currently is a major part of Windows Phone 7, and is rumored to be coming to the XBox360.
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So I've been developing in WPF on and off for a little while, and so far labored at making my controls look and behave sleek and intuitively from scratch. The only control suite I've checked out were Infragistics.
What are some cool/sleek/useful/time saving WPF controls you've come across of?
Very nice and free set of controls for displaying graphs: DynamicDataDisplay. Two major flaws - lack of documentation and project seems to be abandoned. But being compared to other libraries I've tried it is the most perfectly constructed.
We`re using the Telerik RadControls! Really good quality, good documentation, good forum support and really cool look and feel.
Check them out under --> http://demos.telerik.com/wpf/
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Closed 10 years ago.
I am supposed to be making a jeopardy game for my class. I was wondering it there is a template for it already out? Or do I have to make one myself, in which case, what would be the best approach to making this game in Silverlight? (My last resort is to make it in PowerPoint)
No, there is no template such as this today.
You would need to do a great amount of research into game development in Silverlight to be successful, and that information is too involved to fit into a single question like this.