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1 replies. Latest Post by Bill Reiss on January 4, 2008.
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rjdev46
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01-04-2008 9:04 PM |
I was hoping to get clarification on SilverLight development without Visual Studio. I have a client who has a .NET 2.0 web site, and is looking at Adobe Flex to move toward a rich internet user experience (RIA). The people pushing for Flex are not in the .NET camp, and use the argument that Flex is not dependent on .NET - neither client side or server side. They argue the ability to switch to java server platform, and not modify the client Flex parts.
I saw something in this forum about coding against a SilverLight API with unmanaged JavaScript, which I take to mean plain old client java script.
So, does SilverLight depend on .NET Framework on the web server? If not, could you theoretically write your SilverLight code in javascript in notepad, no Visual Studio required? Just trying to get the facts straight, and hopefully pursuade to commit to VS with .NET web servers for best RIA in the long haul.
Thanks, Rick
Bill Reiss
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01-04-2008 9:16 PM |
Ok, so first of all, Silverlight 1.0 is javascript only on the client, it needs a plugin similar to Flash/Flex to be installed.
Silverlight 2.0 will support writing the client side code in any .Net language, but from what I understand, pure javascript will still be supported as well.
None of these require .Net framework on the server. As long as you have your MIME types set properly (for the XAML and in the case of 2.0 the DLL files) any web server can serve up the Silverlight controls.
Silverlight with JavaScript ONLY