Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

Laurent — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:18:42 GMT

Yes!! I told Stephan Shackow how great this is, and to keep up the good work. This is exactly what I did back then in my Java days, when I developed "invisible applets" (typically 1x1 pixels and using the HTML page's background color as its own background), controlled through JavaScript (using LiveConnect). This way I was able to fulfil tasks otherwise impossible to JavaScript (for example read a file located on the server-of-origin, etc...).

I actually still have a demo online:

http://www.galasoft.ch/_archive/myjava/WebLoadFile/Demo/Demo.html

Since then there are better ways to achieve this for text files (XmlHttpRequest), and I don't use it anymore, but "invisible Silverlight" opens a whole new range of possibilities for web app developers.

So yes, keep up the good work, indeed!

Greetings,

Laurent

re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

Jeremiah Morrill — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:31:11 GMT

When WPF/E was just a mention on Channel9, I was very excited and my colleagues could not get me to shutup about it. I was so thrilled about .Net in the browser, that for me, it really dwarfed the excitment around the WPF feature-set. "We can replace Javascript with C#!", I would shout.

When I heard that the CLR was not going to be in v1.0, you could imagine the great depression I fell into. I couldn't sleep. Barely ate. Naturally I assumed the release would go from CTP -> 1.0 Beta -> RTM. Not CTP -> 1.0 Beta -> 1.1 Alpha. With the CLR in 1.1, my happiness has been restored. Thanks for showing me what being bipolar is like.

-Jer

re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

Scott Bellware — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:18:42 GMT

Was the .NET framework "refactored", or re-designed? If stuff was re-moved from the framework for Silverlight, then the set of behaviors that make up the .NET framework would have had to change (there are less of them). That would suggest that this was likely not a refactoring, but a re-design.

I'm bringing this up because the community knows that refactoring is something that we can swallow easier than re-design, and we go into it with a lighter heart. If we start to use these drastically different terms interchangeably then folks in the community will believe that re-design is something that we can do as lightly as refactoring... which really isn't a positive development.

re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

Marc — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:53:36 GMT

Maybe have a look to some great posts from Michael at http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/

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re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

LiQ — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:44:25 GMT

What about it being WPF's way into Windows Mobile?

I haven't seen any info anywhere about WPF coming to the Compact Framework any time soon.

re: Silverlight Isn't Just about Presentation...

Laurent — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:40:48 GMT

@Scott Bellware: The CLR is the same than for the "full blown" version of .NET, but they removed some classes. You still reference to System.dll and mscorlib.dll, but these are other, smaller versions of these libraries. Note however that the compiler is exactly the same. I think it is a good approach (think Java mobile edition vs Java enterprise edition).

Tim, if I got something wrong, feel free to correct (I know you're busy these days) but it's what I got from MIX.

Laurent

Javascript is not suitable for complex computation m'kay! Silverlight and the CLR is. Please use the right tool for the job in hand.

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Catchy title eh! Oh well at least it describes the post ;-). Anyway following my trip to the Google Developer

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