Microsoft has revealed it is integrating the .Net framework into its new Silverlight cross-browser technology for running multimedia applications on the Web. Chief Software Architect and CTO Ray Ozzie made the announcement in a keynote speech to kick off the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas. He said Microsoft is shipping a cross-platform version of the .Net framework for the browser in Silverlight, which went into its first beta Monday. Silverlight, unveiled a few weeks ago, is essentially a Web-based version of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation, the user-interface framework in Windows Vista.
Microsoft is encouraging developers to build applications for it through both the Microsoft Expression toolset and Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. The company even updated the currently available alpha of the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas, by releasing Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio Orcas. Leveraging .Net developer community to build application for Silverlight is a clever strategic move for the company so it can gain ground its lost to Adobe and others by its long-time reluctance to accept the Web as a development platform. Ozzie also unveiled Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live, a hosting and repository service that lets Web designers and developers stream cross-browser rich Internet applications on both Windows and the Mac OS. The company also said it opened up APIs to Windows Live services through new licensing terms so they can be integrated into the Silverlight Streaming service and delivered on Silverlight applications.
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News source: InfoWorld
Microsoft is encouraging developers to build applications for it through both the Microsoft Expression toolset and Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. The company even updated the currently available alpha of the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas, by releasing Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio Orcas. Leveraging .Net developer community to build application for Silverlight is a clever strategic move for the company so it can gain ground its lost to Adobe and others by its long-time reluctance to accept the Web as a development platform. Ozzie also unveiled Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live, a hosting and repository service that lets Web designers and developers stream cross-browser rich Internet applications on both Windows and the Mac OS. The company also said it opened up APIs to Windows Live services through new licensing terms so they can be integrated into the Silverlight Streaming service and delivered on Silverlight applications.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system Download Silverlight 1.0 Beta for: Windows | OS X Download Silverlight 1.1 Alpha for: Windows | OS X Link: Home Page News source: InfoWorld
Try yourself!..and Yahoo messenger for Vista is cool too!
Adobe flash does all that anyone would need. Websites dont need to get anymore dressed up. Its annoying, and totally unneeded.
The rest of us - will take sites with rich content. While it is not for all applications, it definitely has it's place.
less resources, not painfully slow to load and doesn't suck the usability out of yoru website from being there.
However, my comment below still applies... There are many unanswered questions that rise if .NET is added.
I don't think this will "worsen" web sites more, besides the current problem with non-Linux and Opera support that Flash doesn't have. I don't think they'll get "more" dressed up; the end result is mostly the same (still the same kind of "flashy websites" ), but you do it in a different way using Microsoft's existing platform for it, which is probably much preferred by some developers, instead of having to learn and use Flash.
I'd compare it to writing a program in C# vs Java. Completely different languages, totally different API's, but end result is still programs that run on a virtual machine in a managed environment, and not really that different in "what you can do".
The full .NET Framework ported to OS X? What about OS-specific stuff like the Windows Registry, environment varibles, etc? This would be a huge effort to port because .NET is mostly just wrappers on Win32 functions. What about file I/O and security?
Is Linux support planned? Given that it's at least as common online as OS X, leaving it out seems strange, especially when Flash works and it's a competitor.
So many questions...
Last edited by Jugalator on 01 May 2007 - 02:33
There is Mono under Linux. I think they emulate some of it.
Nut I think that Silverlight will use only subdet of .Net Framework. You don't need Registry in web applications. (Practically you don't need Registry in .Net at all)
^^ thats got some nice Silverlight stuff on it
-Spenser
tutorials on coding with it? or putting it together? how do i use it? what apps am i using? etc.... any help would be nice
And if Silverlight catches on, I'm sure Mac-based editors will come along...
This is actually something that I believe was suppose to be apart of Vista when previewed at PDC 03. This is what excited me most about Vista and they completely didn't deliver. I remember seeing an Amazon.com demo that would have completely changed the way we view and shop online websites.
Hopefully this will either 1) kill Flash or 2) push Adobe to make Flash better therefore creating competition.
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