By tiesto
via realsoftwaredevelopment.com
Published: Oct 13 2008 / 13:40
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement that Silverlight 2 was available. Surprises also included Eclipse support and the Silverlight XAML vocabulary being published.This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but it also marks the date that Flash finally got a true competitor after years of complete domination. While Silverlight 1.0 was released last year, it was mainly a video only version, with some JavaScript/AJAX support that lacked the true power of .net. With the release of Silverlight 2, Microsoft has introduced a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework.
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Comments
danielfernandez replied ago:
Not surprised it came out today, although the Eclipse support is a little shocking. Maybe Adobe will finally get it's but in gear and update Flash, which they haven't done in ages, other than copy Microsoft's time line management with the latest release.
bradshaw replied ago:
Microsoft tends to release crap that isn't ready for production. There is no way I am switching to this from Flash. HOWEVER. I am happy that they are going to force Adobe to start innovating again.
Kaveh Shahbazian replied ago:
Totally agreed with bradshaw on that only Microsoft could kick Apple properly in @$$ to move on! They feel themselves at safe side as Sun did some years ago and loses some share of server side to .Net (remember early 2000 when everybody was telling that this .Net thing is pointless except Gartner) and client side (Applets) to Flash (not yet Adobe).
And I hate this stupid feeling of being dominant and at safe side in companies that own cute products! :)
But also I think I will use Silverlight in some projects!
Kaveh Shahbazian replied ago:
Sorry; my mistake: "...only Microsoft could kick Adobe..." is correct on first line!
Miloskov replied ago:
Geez the eclipse plugin looks awesome, Im Java programmer and this news is great I can use my Lovely Eclipse tool to build Silverlight apps talking with web services to my Java server app. This will kick Adobe ass.
I will use IronPython for Silverlight development. Adobe only have actionscript that is boring.
Hey WTF is doing Sun with JavaFX?, where are the tools? even one simple working Eclipse plugin would be nice. Release NOW JavaFX or it will fail forever.
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