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7 replies. Latest Post by sl.ayer on August 27, 2008.
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gsmlakshmi
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08-27-2008 5:37 AM |
Hi all,
i need to decide the choice between Silverlight & Adobe Flex. my need is that my application (which would be desktop as well Web based) need to run both on Wndows and Mac. Is it possible to achive this cross platform ability through Silverlight? If yes, how could i go about the development? Please give some ideas, some useful links to required documentation, sample projects, etc.
HarshBar...
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08-27-2008 5:40 AM |
Hi.
i will suggest to use Silverlight.
It is Really Cool.If you are having Programming Experience of .net then it will be even easy for you to develop applications...
It runs on Windows and mac both..
You Can check for Oss supported By Silverlight Here.
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx#sysreq
You Can check this Site(Silverlight.Net) for many useful information.
You Can go through Learn section of this where there are so many tutorials.
Apart from that You can go through these links also..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404700(VS.95).aspx
http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=10
https://blogs.msdn.com/kathykam/archive/2008/03/05/silverlight-2-beta-1-control-samples.aspx
www.wynapse.com/Silverlight.aspx
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
Mark as answer if it helps...
08-27-2008 5:50 AM |
Thank you for quick reply.
your reply starting from "you can check..." is only partilly visible to me. i could not see the link at all.
please suggest hoe to overcome this display problem.
08-27-2008 6:05 AM |
Hi,
If you will click on reply link on my previous answer all things will be visible to you.
Thanks,
Mark as answer if it helps..
08-27-2008 6:21 AM |
Thank you Harshbardhan.
your reply gave me a good starting point. before i move further into the links, let me put one more query.
Which language shall i select to achieve this cross platform ability - should it necessrily be javascript?
08-27-2008 6:35 AM |
No.
You can write in Your Languages Like C# ,Vb e as well as Other Language like Ruby etc(I am not much aware of this one but you can check DLR Support).
Actually client will be having a Plugin (Silverlight Plugin) in his machine so no need to develop that in Javscript only..
Mark as answer if it Helps.
kwatts
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08-27-2008 10:39 AM |
For a more comprehensive look into this issue, check out this thread:
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/634/84035.aspx#84035
sl.ayer
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08-27-2008 4:59 PM |
At this time only Adobe Flex in combination with Adobe AIR will let you develop portable web and desktop applications. If desktop version of your application is a hard requirement then Flex is the only viable choice. Flex is also more mature application/platform, altho AIR is quite new. Silverlight got its own advantages, but based on the requirements you provided it is not the right choice.
Choice between Silverlight & Adobe Flex