Video: Tim Heuer - Silverlight is not dead - DevConnections 2010

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:
  • Statement from Bob Muglia (President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft)
  • Scott Gu discussing the state of Silverlight with John Papa
  • Robby Ingebrestsen describing Silverlight and HTML5 and your Future
  • Steve Ballmer - PDC Thoughts
• Should Web devs still think about using Silverlight?
  • 3rd party tools like DevExpress 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?
  • Tim’s recommendation: PDC video – “WPF – Today and Tomorrow”
• 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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