Microsoft plan to remove Silverlight so that existing applications will stop working. They won't replace it with anything similar. We'll have to learn a totally new technology. Or take up help desk support jobs.
Nah, we'll be fine. Silverlight will keep working. You can stop panicking now. ;) Whatever Silverlight looks like in the future, it's sure to be shiny and better. Now, am I being sarcastic again or not? Time will tell. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Greg H, Scott,**** > > ** ** > > A bit more reading soon revealed that XBAP is not that popular and it has > lots of hoops to jump through.**** > > ** ** > > The reason I asked about this was because a Borland C++ coding colleague > knocked-up a WPF demo app with some Visifire charts and a few controls, > then ran it in the browser. It looked quite nice and was easy to code so > they got all exciting thinking this was the way to go. I had to sober them > up and point out where their demo fits into the bigger picture. I have > since created a Silverlight 4 replacement demo.**** > > ** ** > > Hmmm ... so what is the future of Silverlight? We’ve got a fair investment > in it.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Greg**** > > ** ** >
