Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

2017-03-14 Thread David Richards
Umm, I still have customers using Windows Mobile. I still have to use VS 2008. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 13 March 2017 at 17:48, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, a

Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

2017-03-13 Thread Scott Barnes
Yeah it was never really meant to live past HD video disruption. We used to joke there was a secret envelope that said "open when you reach 95% ubiquity" and when you opened, it would say "delete silverlight" But .. the actual reason was due to JavaScript arms race. Google bait and switched IE

Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

2017-03-13 Thread Scott Barnes
And there it is... the memorial service announcement... "We're not saying its dead, and we're not saying its a life, what we are saying is - it depends"... you hear those words "it depends" its the unsaid "Its time you moved on.." --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Mar

Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

2017-03-13 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, a warning: I was just experimenting with VS2017 in a VM to be sure that all of my existing projects will work, before I upgrade on my real PC. It was going quite well until I couldn't load a Silverlight 5 project. I installed the developer runtime and fiddled around a bit and it still