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  • M Mohammed Hameed

    Reading 'Silverlight 4 in Action' book by Pete Brown. Concepts explained in a very simplistic and easy to understand manner. It is a very good book.

    Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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    Too bad Silverlight is dead as a development platform. It won't be developed any further than bug fixes for release 5.1.

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      Too bad Silverlight is dead as a development platform. It won't be developed any further than bug fixes for release 5.1.

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      Mohammed Hameed
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      Hi Dave, Thanks for info. But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development. If it does, atleast for few more years SL Support will be there - i.e., till 2021 according to this site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45[^] btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

      Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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      • M Mohammed Hameed

        Hi Dave, Thanks for info. But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development. If it does, atleast for few more years SL Support will be there - i.e., till 2021 according to this site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45[^] btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

        Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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        Ranjan D
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        btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

        So why not to learn WPF first ? Thanks,

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        • M Mohammed Hameed

          Reading 'Silverlight 4 in Action' book by Pete Brown. Concepts explained in a very simplistic and easy to understand manner. It is a very good book.

          Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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          Pete OHanlon
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          So why are you reading Silverlight 4 in Action? Why not Silverlight 5?

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          • M Mohammed Hameed

            Hi Dave, Thanks for info. But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development. If it does, atleast for few more years SL Support will be there - i.e., till 2021 according to this site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45[^] btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

            Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            With the proliferation of Android and iOS tablets and phones, starting a new project using targeting Silverlight is ill advised.  IMHO, you'd be much better off learning ASP .NET MVC and the plethora of JS frameworks. /ravi

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            • M Mohammed Hameed

              Hi Dave, Thanks for info. But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development. If it does, atleast for few more years SL Support will be there - i.e., till 2021 according to this site: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45[^] btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

              Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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              Mohammed Hameed wrote:

              But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development

              Actually, they have. Read this[^] and donwload and read the 70-page document linked to in the first paragraph. MS want's Silverlight gone by 2015, not 2021. The 2021 timeline is just the list of browsers that Silverlight 5 (NOT 4!) will support until then. There will be no further expansion of that list.

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                Mohammed Hameed wrote:

                But I think still Microsoft has not officially said about stopping Silverlight development

                Actually, they have. Read this[^] and donwload and read the 70-page document linked to in the first paragraph. MS want's Silverlight gone by 2015, not 2021. The 2021 timeline is just the list of browsers that Silverlight 5 (NOT 4!) will support until then. There will be no further expansion of that list.

                A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
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                Mohammed Hameed
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                Thanks Dave, thank you so much for providing this valuable information. Our current project is in SL4. Anyhow transition should happen (to Html5).

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                • R Ravi Bhavnani

                  With the proliferation of Android and iOS tablets and phones, starting a new project using targeting Silverlight is ill advised.  IMHO, you'd be much better off learning ASP .NET MVC and the plethora of JS frameworks. /ravi

                  My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                  Agreed Ravi. Thanks.

                  Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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                  • P Pete OHanlon

                    So why are you reading Silverlight 4 in Action? Why not Silverlight 5?

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                    Hi Pete, Our current App is in SL4.

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                    • R Ranjan D

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                      btw, learning Silverlight helps getting to know about some of the WPF concepts further as its kind of subset to Wpf.

                      So why not to learn WPF first ? Thanks,

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                      Good advice. Thanks.

                      Explore.Code.Experiment.Excel!!! --------------------------------------------------------- My blog - My recent article

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