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• Henk commented  ·  April 19, 2012 1:34 a.m.  ·  Delete

  I agree that at this moment there is NO technology which give you a RAD development than using C# and Silverlight! We see and read a lot of focus of HTML5 by Microsoft (MSDN and Technet articles) and a complete radio silence about Silverlight. Microsoft should learn from the competition that you should not DUMP great technology every 3 or 4 years. You dont hear from Apple that they abandon Objective-C and Google with Android for HTML5! HTML5 is a refurbished old and non RAD technology that gives u headaches because of the browser differences!. It would be very dissapointing if Microsoft does NOT allow Silverlight in Win8 ARM tablet devices. It's like killing your own child because the "environment", ie. Apple, does not accept how your child behave. The opposite should be true and Microsft should deliver SL also for other platforms ie Android and convince apple to accept SL that SL <> Flash! I hope Microsoft read this forum and listenen to their developers!

• Anonymous commented  ·  April 18, 2012 9:02 a.m.  ·  Delete

  C# .NET, WPF, Silverlight

• Kai Sellgren commented  ·  March 11, 2012 7:16 a.m.  ·  Delete

  No this makes no sense. HTML5 along with WP8 and Boot2Gecko are making the right thing.

• alex commented  ·  February 6, 2012 10:33 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Silverlight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Gaetano Gliatta commented  ·  November 29, 2011 10:32 a.m.  ·  Delete

  VB.NET, C#, .NET Framework, WPF, Silverlight in all platform desktop and mobile

• mass beefsteak commented  ·  November 10, 2011 12:07 a.m.  ·  Delete

  .NET/VS2010/BLEND/LINQ/ENTITY <== voila there is the killer productivity stack !
  we *dont* ever have a working html 4.0 !!!!!!!!!!! and you guys want to sell me html5 ? HAHAHAHA !!!!!!!! this is hopeless period !

• drGrey2005 commented  ·  October 31, 2011 12:28 a.m.  ·  Delete

  C#, .NET, WPF, Silverlight 4ever

• Henk commented  ·  October 14, 2011 11:40 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Please Microsoft dont make the mistake to switch Silverlight with HTML5 and javascript! It is inferior technology. Push SL more by adding support for Android. If possible also for IOS. But why not providing a service where SL appl can be automatically transformed to HTML5?

• Anonymous commented  ·  October 8, 2011 10:25 p.m.  ·  Delete

  am suggesting to make it the lead development technology for Windows 8

• Danny commented  ·  October 5, 2011 5:35 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Please, SL & WPF are by far superior dev environments. Seriously, what are you thinking ?

• tsai commented  ·  September 30, 2011 8:25 a.m.  ·  Delete

  NET, WPF, Silverlight forever.

• Marc Hoeppner commented  ·  September 26, 2011 5:12 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Silverlight still is the most important and promising platform from MS in the past years. For this very reason many MS partners invested heavily into this technology. Make sure that their trust in MS was valid...

• Kryal commented  ·  September 23, 2011 6:19 p.m.  ·  Delete

  .NET has been the most promising development platform for the past decade, and has seen far more advancement and sophistication than anything else in the development world. Desktop developers finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel with Silverlight, eliminating the need for native window management and platform-specific design. The possibility of developing an application once and deploying it to ANY hardware / processor platform is what the computing world NEEDS! And no, Javascript is not programming and HTML design is not development. If Microsoft cannot see how imperative this is, they should at least make Silverlight their native goal for Windows 8. To the Microsoft execs: The development world is moving beyond platform limitations with or without you. You hold a trump card that will give you an unprecedented edge in the platform wars, but you do not see it. Developers will leave you and instead write HTML/Javascript like you preach, which will be a very sad day indeed. You're right when you say plugins should be phased out; Silverlight was never meant to be a plugin.

• LunkwillAndFook commented  ·  September 19, 2011 12:04 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Let me start by saying there is no technical reason that I can determine not to make Silverlight/WPF and HTML 5 co-equal partners. I don't mind if MS wants to back the HTML5 bandwagon but excluding Silverlight from the Metro-mode version of Internet Explorer 10 and trying to kill it off as a development platform for Windows 8 is a death-sentence for Windows. I am an app developer, both for Enterprise and for fun. If this moves forward as-is I will gladly spend the time to learn HTML5 but I will also be writing my apps for Google and Apple platforms first. I thought the MS folks "learned" from the disaster that was Vista. The lesson there is not to alienate those which your platform depends on: OEM vendors, developers, and customers. You alienated the OEM vendors with the Vista driver model change and that OS was fail. Now you are alienating your core developers and evangelists by dumping Silverlight which is going to make Windows 8 fail. How many times is MS going to make the same mistake over and over with a different twist before the investors force them to get some new direction at the top?

• Cesare Marchi commented  ·  September 18, 2011 1:49 p.m.  ·  Delete

  C#, wpf, silverlight....

  Die java

• Mateus Lopes commented  ·  September 15, 2011 12:27 p.m.  ·  Delete

  c#, .net, silverlight forever

• Krzysztof commented  ·  September 15, 2011 3:31 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Don't make Windows 8 a disaster! No devs = no succes of Windows 8. We want Silverlight, not a technology, which will become standard in 2020!

• Max commented  ·  September 12, 2011 10:14 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Good advice. Silverlight much better than ASP NET MVC even with HTML5 support, especially for reliable LOB applications, JavaScript can not compete with C# in this area.

• Paul B commented  ·  September 1, 2011 2:24 p.m.  ·  Delete

  JavaScript is a horrible language. It's not even object oriented.

• Lynn commented  ·  August 16, 2011 1:08 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I do not believe MS will toss WPF/Silverlight all at once. Maybe they will find out that HTML5/JS is so weak that they will have to rely more on WPF/Silverlight.