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Re:Leaving .Net by decode on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:37AM (#2016285)
Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF.

Back when my company started using Silverlight, I was surprised to learn that none of my coworkers knew it was almost the same as Adobe Flex. I think this sort of ignorance about the greater world of programming is exactly what the original post is talking about.

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Re:Leaving .Net by kenjackson on Friday December 17, 2010 @11:51AM (#2016744)
They're only similar in that they both use markup and code behind. But that's like saying Silverlight and classic ASP are almost the same. With that said, I should have said, at introduction Silverlight looked fundamentally different. Flex has copied what I think is Silverlight (and WPFs) main differentiator, which is lookless controls (which ties into binding).

I think you underestimate the amount of people who have used Flex at some point in time.

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