It seems like everyone-from news sites to social networks to your next-door neighbor-is involved in the online video experience. Streaming media has become ubiquitous on the Web. Creating Modern WPF Applications with MahApps.Volume 25 Number 05 Now Playing - Building Custom Players with the Silverlight Media Framework.Understanding Distributed Version Control Systems.Understanding and Eliminating Technical Debt.Building Serverless Applications in Azure.Azure Container Instances: Getting Started.Microsoft Azure Developer: Implement Azure Functions (AZ-204).Versioning and Evolving Microservices in ASP.NET Core.Microservices Architecture: Executive Briefing. Microsoft Azure Developer: Deploying and Managing Containers.Really, there are few projects out there that started doing this but their all either going the Xamarin way or have different goal-set than "Implementing a C# & XAML engine for web". NET Core for web (that is translated to local client code - TS&JS), and a XAML engine that emits HTML5 and CSS3, and there you have a plugin-less Silverlight that works natively on web, and on Android and iOS via Apache Cordova (until a C#-XAML solution is implemented natively per OS). HTML5-JS-CSS (a compilation of error-prone shitty hard-coded languages - compared to C# & XAML) is MS recent trend everywhere, and that is to attract foreign devs, and I can understand MS' side in this if we think business-wise, but if XAML is here to stay, Silverlight can be revived, especially now that Apache Cordova is live and kicking, I wish MS would invest in a. But the real question is - before we start to leave condolence candles and sympathy flowers on its grave - if MS is abandoning XAML for the sake of HTML. Well I did invest a great deal in commercial Silverlight projects, and it was indeed a great technology. Hello Mark and thanks for your great blog! You were the right idea at the wrong time, and the wrong idea implemented the right way. And of course it meant I could use C# in the browser instead of getting to grips with the quirks of JavaScript. And it even ran on the Mac, which was a bold and significant move for Microsoft at the time. It offered a way for C# developers to create games and media players in the browser at a time when the HTML5 audio and canvas elements simply weren’t an option. NET CLR and a sizable chunk of the FCL into a remarkably compact download. But I was always impressed with the engineering that went into putting essentially the entire. With hindsight, it was a technology that arrived on the scene too late, with Flash already on the way out. But since Chrome dropped support a while back, and now Microsoft aren’t going to support it in Edge, it’s well and truly in the grave now. Of course, everyone has been saying “Silverlight is dead” for years now, which was only half-true, because although it was getting no new features, it still worked just fine. And I’ve released six open source projects built with Silverlight: Even though I’ve not touched it for years, it remains in the top five topics I’ve blogged about. Although I’ve never actually created a commercial project in Silverlight, I was an enthusiast right from the start (well actually since 1.1 alpha when it got interesting).
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