Good News about Silverlight and WPF for a Change
Most of my posts lately have only been delivering bad news about BUILDS affects on our Silverlight and WPF projects. Instead of dropping 2 Silverlight and 1 WPF project, we will only be dropping one Silverlight project. I am lucky enough to work with some very bright people.
We have decided to push forward with the one of the Silverlight projects and the WPF project in order to introduce XAML into the environment. With METRO on the horizon you will have no choice but to learn XAML. The HTML/JS/CSS may pay off for the goal of attracting hobbyist and college kids, but it is going to make a heck of a lot of messes. Plus the Silverlight will run fine in the desktop browser. At least as of today it will.
XAML will be the only realistic choice for real development for METRO apps. The HTML/JS/CSS environment is messy as messy can get. I wish it would just be outlawed.
So that is good news for me and the teams I work with, but what about the community at large? Why is Microsoft not giving a solid answer about Silverlight?
Were you ever in one of those situations where you knew something about a friend, but didn't want to break the news to them because you knew it would upset them, or even damage your friendship?
They are intentionally not answering, because they don't have an answer anyone wants to hear. Except maybe the Silverlight haters. They know the party is over, but want it to continue as long as possible.
They don't want to shut down all the books coming out, or hurt their next release. The truth is Silverlight will be fine on the desktop side of METRO, at least it is now, but they aren't planning on delivering any good news, so instead they will just deliver none.
I know there are a lot of people out there saying "If they have not mentioned it, that means all is well". That just makes absolutely no sense what so ever. How hard is it to deliver some good news about Silverlight, or to include a session on it. Especially since the message was "We will give you news about Silverlight at BUILD"? They have no good news, so they aren't delivering any.
So what does that all mean? Do you listen to me. I wouldn't. I am just some clown who digs programming. I would determine for yourself what direction to take. Stop asking Microsoft for direction, because you aren't going to get any while the news is potentially bad news. If the situation changes, expect Silverlight Fire Starter II. Until then, download the tools, fire them up, and then see for yourself what is possible.
I am personally still moving ahead with learning more about Java (got 2 of the new Java books and the CSS books I ordered shown in this blog today), HTML5 (enough to keep it off my projects), and iOS (curious about how the other side of the force lives). I am also however moving forward with learning about METRO and XAML for Windows. I am not keeping all my eggs in the Microsoft basket anymore. They are a corporation with a major case of ADHD and I can't trust them to do the next right thing anymore.
We have decided to push forward with the one of the Silverlight projects and the WPF project in order to introduce XAML into the environment. With METRO on the horizon you will have no choice but to learn XAML. The HTML/JS/CSS may pay off for the goal of attracting hobbyist and college kids, but it is going to make a heck of a lot of messes. Plus the Silverlight will run fine in the desktop browser. At least as of today it will.
XAML will be the only realistic choice for real development for METRO apps. The HTML/JS/CSS environment is messy as messy can get. I wish it would just be outlawed.
So that is good news for me and the teams I work with, but what about the community at large? Why is Microsoft not giving a solid answer about Silverlight?
Were you ever in one of those situations where you knew something about a friend, but didn't want to break the news to them because you knew it would upset them, or even damage your friendship?
They are intentionally not answering, because they don't have an answer anyone wants to hear. Except maybe the Silverlight haters. They know the party is over, but want it to continue as long as possible.
They don't want to shut down all the books coming out, or hurt their next release. The truth is Silverlight will be fine on the desktop side of METRO, at least it is now, but they aren't planning on delivering any good news, so instead they will just deliver none.
I know there are a lot of people out there saying "If they have not mentioned it, that means all is well". That just makes absolutely no sense what so ever. How hard is it to deliver some good news about Silverlight, or to include a session on it. Especially since the message was "We will give you news about Silverlight at BUILD"? They have no good news, so they aren't delivering any.
So what does that all mean? Do you listen to me. I wouldn't. I am just some clown who digs programming. I would determine for yourself what direction to take. Stop asking Microsoft for direction, because you aren't going to get any while the news is potentially bad news. If the situation changes, expect Silverlight Fire Starter II. Until then, download the tools, fire them up, and then see for yourself what is possible.
I am personally still moving ahead with learning more about Java (got 2 of the new Java books and the CSS books I ordered shown in this blog today), HTML5 (enough to keep it off my projects), and iOS (curious about how the other side of the force lives). I am also however moving forward with learning about METRO and XAML for Windows. I am not keeping all my eggs in the Microsoft basket anymore. They are a corporation with a major case of ADHD and I can't trust them to do the next right thing anymore.
posted by tadanderson at 6:54 PM
3 Comments:
Yes, all is well. Silverlight is the best option to build enterprise line of business applications and will be for years to come.
*little, how to comment to blog, not to another comment?
OK I want to conclude that, If SilverLight has no good news while other in the world still running
Then it called "Dead" and "No Future"
And all your reason for it. In developer POV is just faking and lying. Developer never want to use dead technology. And if there try to hide the true about it. Then it will like the train will run straight to hell and they have hid it for excuse that they don't want to panic us
There are many ways to continue this party but they just denied all of it and make party over. And try not to announce that it will over soon. That's retard. We need to prepare and catch the new one in time. The world will change and they have prepared many thing already but don't let us prepared it's make our trust in them drop to negative
I'm not even sure what Microsoft's enterprise story is now. I used to look with scorn at companies that were slow to adopt new technologies, now I'm almost sure that's the right approach to take.
I had high hopes for Silverlight. This browser-based world that I've been making a living in for the past 13 years has always felt like a step backward.
I used to get excited about the latest trends, but the thought of HTML5/Javascript programming as my future just depresses me.
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