Why silverlight is dead

The fact it was chosen as the Windows Phone 7 dev platform has given it a new lease of life. But already it is reaching the stage where new versions are more incremental than revolutionary. To summarise: no need to panic. Keep building apps with the most appropriate technology that is available now. Those apps will continue to work just fine for years to come.

And in 5 years time, I fully expect that there will be something even better than Silverlight to write Windows apps in. My Blog. Silverlight Developer Center. Sign in. United States English. Home Library Learn Downloads Forums. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.

Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Visual Studio. Shurts 3. Sign in to vote. Our head of development told us today that Microsoft has officially killed Silverlight.

There will be no more releases of the tools and no more support of the platform. Is this an official Microsoft pronouncement? Where is the link to it? Steve Shurts. Wednesday, March 20, PM.

Microsoft still support Silverlight! So, enjoy it. Best regards. Marked as answer by Steve. Shurts Thursday, March 21, AM. Shurts 0. Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll be retired by so I don't care what happens in I guess I will go ahead and spend the time to learn it, as it seems like a very nice platform. Thursday, March 21, AM. Proposed as answer by eauz Friday, May 31, PM.

Friday, May 3, PM. I'm sitting here waiting for Visual Studio to install a bunch of Silverlight crap. Please, Microsoft, kill it. Adobe isn't even developing the real thing, Flash, for mobile. I wish Apple hadn't attacked Flash and they had just left it all alone. Flash worked fine and you could do beautiful animations with a minimum of effort.

Thursday, July 18, AM. Hi Christian, plz give me a link to read about what you said from official sources! Tuesday, September 10, PM. This needs some clarification: "Windows Phone 8 works with it" Whilst you may build dedicated Windows Phone apps using Silverlight, a web page with embedded Silverlight media that is dependent on the plugin i. Saturday, September 14, AM. You can still build great LOB apps with Silverlight given the right situation.

You don't really need anymore features. Monday, October 21, PM. Don't get me wrong - if Silverlight finds some life I'll be as happy as any on here. Tuesday, October 22, AM. OMG u serious? Don't learn it, much better things to learn. The writing is one the wall: Hadoop and Azure. A subscription to make the most of your time. Try one month free. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you!

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