03/24/2009 02:56:59 AM EST

It is not really a battle between silverlight and wpf. Silverlight becomming popular is the best thing that could have happened for wpf. Before silverlight almost nobody knew of the existence of xaml/wpf. No everyone that can create silverlight apps can create wpf apps as well. Sometimes silverlight is good enough, sometimes you need more power and use wpf. So the last statement is right: .NET wins.

Netherlandsdamy

03/24/2009 10:27:39 AM EST

I agree with last comment, Silverlight will never be WPF and viceversa, the strength of silverlight is in fact that is suited for browsers something WPF is not designed for, silverlight can't grow up too much since the download time for the plugin and applications and resource consuming is a limiter for this grow, however WPF can be and can do everything we can imagine or can grow to it at least, so there is a missleading developing culture where some people think all business applications should be in Silverlight just because is browser cross-platform, but for really feature-rich-big business applications WPF and desktop applications will always be the best just like the times of classic web development and windows forms desktops, we have just passed to the next level of developing technology in bot web and desktop, Silverlight should be used for small business applications and interactive media that really need a browser to reach out of the enterprise of the business

MexicoKeoz

03/24/2009 11:55:00 AM EST

This is one direction SL will need to go to be relevant. They are struggling to get a foothold in the browser market: http://www.statowl.com/custom_ria_market_penetration.php

United StatesRyan Berry

03/24/2009 12:47:41 PM EST

Silverlight (even in desktop) runs into sandbox... WPF can access the files and resources on the computer... like AIR. This article is wrong, Silverlight cannot kill WPF for security reasons. The only chance for this happens is if Silverlight ask users if he can run in "full access mode". That will be awesome, but we are not there yet. Best Regards from Brazil

BrazilMalpeli

04/05/2009 10:45:14 PM EST

Sandbox people! SANDBOX!

AustraliaCarl Scarlett

04/22/2009 09:35:56 AM EST

There is no way Silvelight will replace WPF in the next 2-3 years. People who work on both know what I am talking about. Silvelight is missing simple things like: Right-Click, Double-Click in the DataGrid, drag-and-drop and much more. Yes, you can implement them yourself but why would you spend time to do that when WPF already has that and a lot more? In the end it is all about money and the time to market. If you can deploy your application to the user desktop then WPF is by far your best choice. If you want to show Silverlight strength and benefits compare it to other web technologies. If we do that then I agree that Silverlight is a much better choice than other offers for web and RIA. What Silverlight will have as an add-on (more or less) is what used to be called Alexandria, a RIA Framework that will make 2 and 3 tier applications very easy to develop. So if you want a really complex UI then WPF is your best choice, if you want a LOB application that does not require a very complex UI then Silverlight is a very good choice.

United Statesdanutzp

06/09/2009 03:06:38 PM EST

You can do a lot of things with Silverlight even simulate entire windows system. Check this site www.windows4all.com. In future I think won’t be differences between Silverlight and WPF. You will customize Silverlight to run as WPF app.

United StatesJP