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I was wondering if it is possible to convert a wpf application to silverlight without days of work.
Yes, i know there’s a similar post, but dates from 2008, so outdated according to me because of the fast progress in silverlight.
i have a wpf application that uses a 2003 access database (orders :)) and my client wants a silverlight version as well.
Any ideas on time and effort?
Thanks in advance.
Unless you’re not using any significant WPF visual features, I don’t think you can avoid significant effort. Even just Triggers and Actions are significantly less featured. Even under Silverlight 4 there are still huge differences in what the XAML can support, and you’d still be looking at a server side data source (probably over WCF) so you’d have to build out the set of services and such.
Using something like WCF Data Services may make the back end transition easier, but even just the differences in control set are going to create a lot of work on the UI.
While it is possible to limit yourself to a subset and get some functionality (mostly if you use one of the cross platform toolkits for your controls), retrofitting it onto a complete application is likely as difficult as redeveloping it in Silverlight.