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How are you using ASP.NET and Silverlight?

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I have posted in the past about some new things that are coming with DeepZoom and the like.  What I am curious about is how is everyone using ASP.NET and Silverlight?  Are there plans in the future to use it?

I think the options with it are some vast, that I’d like to see how everyone is planning on using it moving forward.  Also, if you aren’t planning on using it, what are you going to use and what doesn’t Silverlight do that you’d like to see it do.

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  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    Silverlight is definately in my plans. I mostly work on internal web apps, and the only real reason we use web apps is for ease of deployement (Click Once is still too much for many of my clients), so we're leaning toward Silverlight and XBAP, as they fill our requirements just the same, just with more power at the cost of having less trained people in those techs. XBAP for all windows environments, Silverlight for mixed environments. Not touching Silverlight until version 2 is RTM though. Version 1, I've used in prototypes, and in the best of cases its a joke :) Will be using them for standard enterprise app front ends really, nothing too fancy. Textboxes, grids and menus :) (ok, more than that, but you get the idea)

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    Unfortunately I am having to Use Flex with Asp .Net instead of Silverlight 2 on account of there being no support for PowerPC Macs. Do you know if this limitation is just a beta thing or does Micrososft really have no intention of supporting PowerPC's with Silverlight 2?

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    We have postponed all our Silverlight development due to the lack of support for synchronous communication with our servers. It is simply too great a task to re-architect all our existing code. So for now, we are staying with the browser. We are using our resources to make sure that we run perfectly on IE, Firefox and Chrome.

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    We are planning to use silverlight in one of our upcoming websites mainly for video streaming and UI

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    We are planning to do trados like environment using silverlight on the web so the translators can login and start doing their jobs online instead of doing it offline. We will see how much we can push things...

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    I put a great deal of time into using Silverlight for streaming our video. Mostly wasted time Currently we have a Windows Visdeo streaming server and web pages utilize embedded Windows Media Player. Works great. There are some Silverlight features we would like to use, but here's the major problem: With our current setup if a user drags the timeline forward the response is extremely fast. With Silverlight the buffering time is very long. Until this problem is resolved Silverlight is all but useless for all but relatively short video. In our case we show video of board of director meetings and some are five hours long. Viewers like to jump around in the video. We provide linked markers to particular video segments. Response is almost instant on Media Player but again very long buffering on Silverlight. Until the response times of Silverlight are at least as good as our current setup, we won't be using Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    So far Technical Evangelist Webcast streaming. Once I catch up I want to do cartoons with it. Expression Design is the whip. ;-)

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2008
    I haven't seen heavy RIAs running successfully on silverlight. I can only see information or business sites running with silverlight. Adobe technologies are far better than microsft for RIAs. Microsoft has a long way to go still.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2008
    We're not using Silverlight. It's too risky too bet on Microsoft for client side technology when you are developing web applications that should be platform agnostic today and in the future. Instead we rely on javascript, html and css. On the server we use ASP.NET MVC, which is a wonderful platform. So, no Silverlight, ever.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2008
    After pushing 1.0 down our throats and leaving a very bad taste I have no intentions of messing with it for a long time.

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2008
    How Could we plan with a product about which we still doesn't have at least a Feature Complete Release.

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2008
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