With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft makes crystal clear that they are pushing Silverlight to be the platform for developers to use to write it once, run everywhere. What started as a browser plug in, has become the Microsoft standard to provide developers the tools to write and distribute their applications.
If you didn’t attend the #MIX10 like me, you still can watch all the videos, hoping Microsoft fixed the bandwidth problem, to find for yourself about the common message from Microsoft on all there platforms.
If you are developer working in Microsoft technologies, I think that is a sure bet to go ahead and learn Silverlight, no matter if you are a desktop developer or into embedded devices.
Multi-device, Rich and Reach and Industrial Strength. This are a few key points of the features for each platform.
- WPF 4
- Windows 7 integration
- Improved test
- Graphics Enhancement
- Better Win32 Interoperability
- Clean .NET client.
- Silverlight 4
- Released in middle of April
- Media
- Business Applications.
- WMine for COM access.
- Visual Studio 2010
- WYSIWYG Design Surface
- XAML IntelliSense Improvement.
- Data Binding, Layout, Styles.
- WCF RIA Service Integration.
- Expression Blend 4
- Sketch Flow output on Sharepoint 2010 to collect feedback.
- Silverlight for Phone
- Great developer platform
- Rich user experiences
- Monetization for developers?
- No need to learn any other new language.
Cheers
Al