Not a programming question - Is Silverlight gaining more ground than WPF? What is your feel.

[code_wiz]

Guys, What is the general observation? In spite of the severe limitations that Silverlight has (compared to WPF), Silverlight seems to be gaining more ground in the market (in terms of employment opportunities, roles being made available, projects being started, etc. ) than compared to WPF. Is this correct or may be i am just trying to gauge it using just one or two factors - i.e. employment market / new projects, and hence get this feel? I even heard one employment agency guy say that his client is moving from legacy WPF ;) code to Silverlight. WPF - is already a legacy system :) ???? Goodness. Is MS investing (or going to continue to invest) in WPF more, or is their direction is on to Silverlight now? Do we have any pointers, guesses or opinions on this?

[Jeremy Hutchinson]

Silverlight is just a subset of WPF, so if I were listing a job for one I would take someone with experience in either one. The fact that Silverlight is a subset of WPF, with Microsoft working to close the gap between the two says to me that in the long run there will probably be more Silverlight apps than WPF apps. This is certainly true in the consumer market where you can write one app in Silverlight that runs on both Windows and Mac, and where Silverlight is one of main frameworks for Windows Phone application. WPF will probably still play a big role in internal business application where all the machines run Windows. It has better performance and less limitations. I wouldn't convert our internal WPF app to Silverlight.