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).
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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.
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.
We were beginning to start on an enterprise application using silverlight.
However after reading this post we doubt whether it is the right choice going forward.
The post says that, according to
Microsoft's declaration in PDC 2010,
Microsoft has changed their strategy
regarding silverlight and they no
longer view it as their technology to
deliver cross platform applications.
Instead they are targeting silverlight
as their development platform for
Windows phone 7.
Is this correct? Should we still continue with silverlight or go back to ASP.NET WebForms\MVC?
The Scope of the application is basically intranet with Windows 2008 servers and Windows XP and Windows 7 clients. However a subset of functionality needs to be available to the external users over the internet. There we cannot have any restrictions on what OS users can use.
based on the info you gave, I can't conclude whether silverlight is the way to go. But what I do know is that a number of Microsofties wrote some blogposts about the things said about Silverlight on the pdc. For example John Papa, Bob Muglia and Scott Guthrie.
Update about the scope
I think you already gave the answer when you described the scope of the application. A part of the application will be available to external users and you cannot have any restriction about the OS they are running. With that requirement I think Silverlight is not the best way to go. Not because the rumours about its future but because of its platform indepency. What are the reasons not to go for a ASP.NET/web solution? Silverlight doesn't work on each OS whereas plain HTML will work everywhere. (ok you need a descent browser)
Although for a good advice I'd need more information about the application.
Basically the question you have to ask yourself is this: do you need your application to be used on every platform, i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux, misc. flavors of Unix, IPhone and other mobile platforms?
If that's the case, then a web based solution is the way to go.
If Windows, Mac and partially Linux is enough, then save yourself and your team a lot of pain and use Silverlight.
In my opinion support for mobile clients is the key factor in your decision.
For sure the right platform for Intranet, Enterprice applications Is Silverlight. It is
stable, performs extreamly well, the environment and the development time is huuge less than web application development, the end User Experience is much better and so on and so forth... Once you want to show part of the system out the the intranet - just create some specific target modules that will address the needed audince. You won't have the universal "Reachfull" solution, that will target everyhing, you'll always need mobile versions or other devices and so on. But once you've built your project the right way with Services (same services that the Silverlight app will consume), it'll be easy job to consume them with new UI.
Hope you will choose Silverlihgt.
Silverlight is a great technology, but the Microsoft does not develop it anymore. So as a technology is a great decision. But if you want to make a Silverlight app usable on a NOT supported platform (e.g. Android or iPhone) you have to use 3rd party services. For example http://sl2html.com
I'm new to Silverlight and am curious how a Silverlight application is updated from one version to the next. Is ClickOnce used to do this, or are there other, hopefully transparent simple and reliable, ways of doing it?
If using a standard Silverlight application (not out of browser), your regular HTTP rules are respected. So assuming caching is sensible, the latest version will be downloaded from the server automatically when the page is launched.
As for when it is running out of browser, Tim Heuer has a good blog post outlining it:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-offline-update-framework.aspx
Basically, a programmer can request for updates from the server and have the application update itself if necessary.
I'm a bit confused about hosting Silverlight apps.
On one hand I see that I can host the silverlight app on a linux server just defining the mime type, on the other I see some hosting sites saying they are silverlight compatible.
And I also want to play around with the "out of browser" funcionality of silverlight 3. What do I need to do this?
Thanks in advance
All Silverlight needs in order to be hosted on a server is the XAP file and the mime type set. Thats it. If you want your app to work "out of browser", there is nothing specific that your server needs to support either.
If you want that Silverlight app to talk to your WCF service or be hosted in an ASP page, you need those services hosted in IIS... but Silverlight, itself is just a single binary file for its distribution, which can be hosted on any site with the mime type.
Marketing buzz words beyond that.
See here for a nice overview of the new features in Silverlight 3. In particular you may want to look at the Out of Browser and Offline functions.
You don't need any particular tools to use Silverlight 3 out of browser, all you need to do is to call the Application.Current.Detach() method to detach the application.
Hosting of Silverlight applications can be done in any HTML page using the object-tag. So hosting it on a Linux server should work just fine. See here for an overview (msdn).
"silverlight compatible" I would assume just means that they have the MIME entry in place, and it's mainly marketing.
The best way to host microsoft product is by using hosting that runs with Windows OS, then you can deploy it under IIS and set the MIME. You should able to find the recommended hosting provider with windows OS by googling