.NET similarities prove golden for Silverlight
November 19, 2008 —
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Times is talking to developers about what they look for in rich
Internet application platforms. Here, developers talk about why the symmetry between .NET and Silverlight 2 make using Silverlight easier.
When Microsoft’s Silverlight media player streamed 2,200 hours of live coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing this summer, developers took notice.
NBC’s Olympic website streamed more than 70 million videos, or 600 million minutes’ worth, over the games’ two-week duration via Microsoft’s rich Internet application (RIA) and media platform. According to Microsoft, Olympic exposure has resulted in unprecedented beta deployments for version 2 of Silverlight, and some big customers have gone live with it. Among the companies that have adopted Silverlight for website media are Blockbuster, CBS College Sports, Hard Rock Cafe and Toyota.
“We looked at [Adobe] Flash and some other platforms, but we saw Silverlight as a viable solution, and what made it even more [appealing was that the Olympics went] with it,” said Raymond Bridgelall, CBS College Sports’ manager of streaming services and product development.
From a development standpoint, Microsoft focused on providing more symmetry with the .NET platform in Silverlight version 2, released in mid-October. The software giant’s RIA offering now includes a cross-platform subset of the .NET framework so that users can deploy multiple programming languages to build applications. At the same time, Microsoft executives said, developers can learn just one language and one common programming model for building .NET applications on the desktop and Silverlight applications in the browser. Thus developers have greater freedom in how they structure projects.
Some .NET developers have called Silverlight a natural progression in the .NET space. Rockford Lhotka, principal technology evangelist for Minnesota-based IT consulting firm Magenic, has created a Silverlight version of CSLA .NET, an open-source .NET development framework for simplifying the production of Windows Forms, Web Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Web Services.
Lhotka, who authored the books “Expert VB Business Objects” and “Using CSLA .NET 3.0,” said developers with C# or Python programming expertise and with WPF applications experience can leverage those skills when using Silverlight, whereas Adobe Flash and Flex require a different skill set.
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