Check out this video with one of Microsoft’s Silverlight Program Managers, Tim Heuer.
Recently, there’s been some confusion about the future of Silverlight. In fact, Julian our CTO, has an interesting post that generated a lot of feedback.
So I caught up with Tim at DevConnections and he was kind enough to help clear up the confusion about Silverlight and discuss some other topics:
YouTube versions here: Part 1 and Part 2
In the video, Tim discusses:
- Silverlight’s future
- His role with the Silverlight team
- The features he owns with Silverlight tooling
- Microsoft’s commitment to Silverlight:
- Should Web devs still think about using Silverlight?
- Things Silverlight can do that HTML 5 cannot currently
- HTML 5 lack of tooling
- Is Microsoft’s developer division thinking about HTML 5 tooling?
- Is Silverlight still going to be cross-platform?
- WPF’s questionable future?
- Silverlight usage:
- Where are the Silverlight usage examples? Behind the firewall?
- Adoption rate?
Thanks Tim!
Watch the video, then drop me a line below on your thoughts about Silverlight vs HTML 5.
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