Building Business Applications with Silverlight?
I'd love to hear feedback and thoughts you have about building business focused applications with Silverlight. What is motivating you to consider Silverlight? if you have already started to evaluating, what is easy or hard about it?
Related, Blaine recently posted a survey on his blog about much the same thing focused on gathering data for Prism 2.0
Thanks!
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Anonymous
September 04, 2008
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September 04, 2008
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September 05, 2008
Combining the presentation powers of WPF, with the strong capabilities of C#, Silverlight is powerful. ASP.Net Developers -
- Note that C# (and VB.Net) code in a Silverlight project runs on the client, and not on the server.
- Silverlight allows for control on the client side, without the requirement of writing JavaScript.
- Typically, business applications require data retrieval, and server databases will not accessible directly. Ooptions include Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services. Cheers!
Anonymous
September 05, 2008
Any idea when 2.0 will RTM?- This could really affect some decisions we need to make and most likely a lot of other organizations also. Thanks JimAnonymous
September 05, 2008
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September 05, 2008
If you are a Microsft employee, instead of asking " What is motivating you to consider Silverlight?", how about spending your energies:
- Getting the dam product released;
- Provide some real world applications in a tutorial so we can learn how to use Silverlight for such a purpose. I am totally blown away with your request. It further irates me about how MS is handling the whole Silverlight product!
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September 05, 2008
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September 05, 2008
Business Intelligence 2.0 applications. Silverlight has: LINQ, multithreading, C#, WCF integration, Data Services Integration. It is perfect for data centric applications with the ability to offload some pieces to the client. The visualizations coupled with the Silverlight advantages will bring a new round of BI 2.0 applications in the next couple months.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
We are evaluating Silverlight as a way to "get to the web". We are a Windows forms based company and the idea that we could have a rich UI like windows forms offers on the web is the main attraction. Using skill sets we have in house already is another attraction. Other Web based technologies (AJAX) are getting better but I haven't seen one "feel" like client application.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
about Befuddled Programmer comment....you don't know how to do a real world application? are you programmer? and could you imagine how difficult is create a stable release?. About this "Survey" well, the main problem with asp.net is the postback, I have an application to translate screen based on user language, and to apply restrictions even to button clicks, of course this is extremely simple with SL but the best thing is i have a powerfull server side, .NET, so the main reason why I'm using SL is because .NET (C#), for me the are only 2 frameworks to consider .NET and java, but .NET has now SL. I hope the final release could include WPF security subset (at least wshttpbinding).Anonymous
September 05, 2008
Until we can run silverlight outside the browser like adobe air, it won't be suitable for the data heavy apps we're building. User hits back button, boom! everything gone.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
I know for me the biggest thing is that Silverlight lets me build web UI that is much like WPF. So far for business aps we have built all kinds of things from sharepoint interactive charts in sharepoint or KPI tools in Silverlight as side bar gadgets etc. for us its about the user experience and Silverlight provides the best toolablity story for building these sorts of rich web ui's for them.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
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September 05, 2008
I think Silverlight has potential but I'm a bit concerned about it for business apps and it's hard to tell if it's another halfbaked MS idea that'll vanish or get replaced next year or for real. Lack of a drop down (basic, fundamental control from early VB days), lack of integrated validation (essential for business apps), lack of integration in visual studio (for the visual elements, like being able to view control properties or even edit them - it is VISUAL studio and I don't want to flit between two apps to do rich development), etc. Webservices are great for a lot of things. Flex has binary data transport that's more efficient - why isn't MS all over this and doing something similar? As a C# coder and .net lover, and a big fan of MS, I'd like to see Silverlight take off but it seems somewhat unfinished (and they're talking about it being done) and it's not clear whether it's something you could do robust business apps in or whether it's more suited to simple web games, single page mini-apps, or plug-ins for web pages.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
I considered ASP.NET MVC (there's no way I'd use that untestable non-MVC version) but as I'm fussy with UI, I found that I could buy some 3rd party controls and basically make a much more impressive UI, much easier with Silverlight. Hence I'm now developing a prototype using it and WCF.Anonymous
September 05, 2008
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September 05, 2008
We've proposed client Silverlight 2 B2 as a RIA and started dev on the same and we use telerik SL 2 B2 controls tooAnonymous
September 06, 2008
Thanks for the opportunity to make some comments. I have 4 points which might be barriers to entry and which I think could be fixed:
- not easy to obfuscate (although I think some 3rd parties are now making progess) - in turn this could lead to security issues if someone downloads a .XAP and starts messing about with it
- following on from my comment in your previous post, would like to see SL compiled twice - once so I can take make an extensible Windows version and use it as a dll in my WPF app and once for the usual crossbrowser deployment. Agsin, SL for Windows = true WPF subset.
- would like MS to consider that only a part of an app's UI might be exposed to designers, the other part would be done more quickly in C# by devlopers. It really would be nice/more efficient to see a VB like 'With' construct for setting properties in C#.
- there currently seems to be a plethora of data access technologies surrounding SL/WPF - could do with an article clarifying approaches or ideally a best common approach - this point is really about education for clarity THANKS!
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September 06, 2008
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September 06, 2008
I am very impressed about silverlight. I am considering using it in a really big buisness app, but there is somethings that needs to fixed first: The DataGrid needs to be much faster. The version out today is really slow. I hope the silverlight plugin load-time will decrease. As it is today you can't partition the app as much as I like because of the startup time. (I.e partition a list-detail app into 2 apps, but maybe this is just stupid design from my side) A release date. Or at least an estimate? An estimate is much better than nothing. I think it is really ignorant from Microsoft not to give us a date, because I am sure they have one internal.Anonymous
September 07, 2008
I'm learning SL since the begining and I see it growing like a giant. I love it, and I would definitely recomand it to do business applications. It works nicely right now with WCF services and LINQ to SQL A very nice mariage.Anonymous
September 08, 2008
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September 09, 2008
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September 09, 2008
Some real progress on the Linux side is vital.Anonymous
September 11, 2008
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September 16, 2008
We want's to start developing business application.But Problem is that We don't know the Full FinalFeature List Of Silverlight 2.0 There should be atleast a release candidate will appear with features complete before the Final RTM so that we can Plan our future pojects. It is hard to convince the client if we ourselve don't know what will be in the final productAnonymous
September 25, 2008
I would like to know more about this programAnonymous
October 03, 2008
Dude, anything that puts .NET on the client-side of the wall is just absolutely awesome. Now I just need a business app to work on.Anonymous
October 24, 2008
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