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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:16:45+00:00

There seems to be a strong movement towards Silverlight, even with Windows Phone 7

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There seems to be a strong movement towards Silverlight, even with Windows Phone 7 rumoured to have dev based around it. Is Silverlight a valid alternative for all web/thick client development? You can remove the concern around plug-in requirements. I’m more concerned about it being technically deficient or cumbersome as opposed to traditional development. To this point I’ve been holding off learning how to leverage it and I’m worried the train may have already left the station.

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    Is Silverlight a valid alternative for all web/thick client development? – any time you use words like “all” the answer is most certainly NO. Silverlight is overkill in some cases, but a great solution for others. AS far as being techincally deficient, Silverlight is almost the same as WPF, WinForm development and even ASP.Net forms development. It’s basically controls raising and consuming events. MVC is certainly a different type of model, but it has its place also.

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