XBAP and Silverlight

re: XBAP and Silverlight

M. Rajesh — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:18:33 GMT

Can you provide any tutorial to get started with Silverlight to create pages for websites. For example how do you get these effects as seen on http://heroeshappenhere.co.in/

We would like to implement this kind of animation for our websites.

Please help.

XBAP and Silverlight

Noticias externas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:22:56 GMT

What is the difference between XBAP and Silverlight and when should i use which of these technologies

re: XBAP and Silverlight

Sync — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:40:39 GMT

Why does 3D work in XBAP and don't in Silverlight? I heard that 3D doesn't support in order to serve Silverlight as a cross-platform technology.. but what exactly is technical reason? Can you tell me a lit bit deep information about that reason?

re: XBAP and Silverlight

D2 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:31:49 GMT

As explained by yourself, can we say that XBAP has been replaced by Silverlight?

re: XBAP and Silverlight

RajaSekhara Reddy Karumuru — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:52:12 GMT

pls find the diff to the best of my Knowledge.

XBAP

Only Targets IE/Windows

All WPF Features are available

Deployment is harder as we need to take care of deploying all .Net Dependencies on client Machines

Heavy Weight

Best for Intranet Applciations

We can use all controls of WPF

SilverLight

Targets to Any Browser/Platform(Even in Linux)

Subset of WPF features only available

Deployment is easy as SilverLight will take care of installation of dependants

Light Weight

Best for Internet Applications

We can't use all the controls. But As silverlight is the future of web apps,we might be getting more controls

Support MVC for TDD.

Thanks

Raj

re: XBAP and Silverlight

devvvy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:23:01 GMT

THanks

By WBA I meant WPF "Web Browser Application" - I tried and run the app it's contained within a brower (Firefox on my XP) - so I think it's a browser based app BUT not served by IIS or webserver and therefore only available through file share? (This also explains why WBA is not a replacement for ASP.NET)

file:///I:/dev/NET3.0/WpfBrowserApplication1/bin/Debug/WpfBrowserApplication1.xbap

Now Silverlight when i tried run Silverlight app, I get this from browser:

http://localhost:1716/Default.aspx[^]

Meaning Silverlight is available via webserver/browser and not restricted to deliver by file share as in case of WBA. It does require Silverlight plugin however and the entire app gets executed on clientside once served, this significantly reduces postbacks.

On contrary, ASP.NET require plug-in and Silverlight/ASPNET are alternatives, competiting technologies. But, Silverlight again does not replace ASP.NET.

My understanding right?

re: XBAP and Silverlight

bsinghal — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:38:58 GMT

@devvvy - you can publish a XBAP (or WBA as you mentioned) on a file share, ftp or a web server - so technically it can replace a ASP.NET app. However XBAPs are not meant to replace ASP.NET applications which are more loosely coupled and work on a the request-response model. XBAPs even when they are published on a web server get downloaded and cahced on the client machine and run entirely locally from the context of the web browser.

Regarding ASP.NET and Silverlight - they are not competing technologies but rather complimentary. Silverlight brings the Richness to ASP.NET that is lacking or otherwise too difficult to create in ASP.NET alone. Besides ASP.NET does not require any client side plug-in but Silverlight does.

XBAP and Silverlight

Xenki Viewer Blog — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:05:09 GMT

I found a short and nice post on the differences between XBAP and Silvelight. Here is the link. http