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I’m working with C# and WPF and I would like to study something related to web programming. I already know HTML and CSS, and since I’m working with WPF, I am wondering if going into Silverlight is a good choice to start web developing. Can it be a substitute of server-side programming languages, like PHP or ASP .NET?
What do you suggest?
Thank you very much
It lets you write .net code in an extremely rich, cross-platform environment.
Silverlight not only works in and out-of-browser on the PC and the Mac, but it’s the primary tool for creating apps on the upcoming Phone 7 (which I believe will become the enterprise mobile platform of choice). Soon you will even be able to work against the xbox!
A lot of the top industry guys seem to be saying that a huge chunk of line-of-business apps will be written in Silverlight in coming years. It’s a very exciting platform, and now that Silverlight 4 is out, it finally appears to be ready for primetime.
There is a learning curve. Xaml, data access (not only is there a tricky asychronous aspect to it, unlike PHP and ASP.NET you have to use RIA or something like Web Services to get at your data), a more involved event system, and other new concepts conspire to make it a bit complicated.