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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by solutionyogi on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:33PM (#2860820)
How is this in anyway related to Silverlight?
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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by MartinCron on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:54PM (#2860920)
SilverLight has been presented as the preferred way to develop for Windows Phone 7, much to the dismay of some SilverLight web/desktop developers who find it a good technology for web/desktop work and fear that it will be phased out.
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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by runjake on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:20PM (#2861435)
Really, it's been mis-presented by Microsoft.

Developing a WP7 app normally involves C# and XAML (for most UI layout). The frameworks include the usual .NET stuff, as well as Silverlight and XNA (MS's gaming/graphics) frameworks. A competent .NET or Silverlight developer can move into the WP7 development world comfortably.

I don't believe your comment about "dismay" is really accurate. I think Silverlight developers probably fall under one of two buckets: 1) "Cool! I can develop phone apps using my existing skillset!", or 2) "I don't really care about mobile development."

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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by MartinCron on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:29PM (#2861665)
RE: dismay, I was thinking of a previous article I saw here on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644364

although it seems that was a bit over-sensationalized. I agree that at least reasonable SL developers will fall into your two buckets.

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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by runjake on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:46PM (#2861726)
Yeah, sounds a bit over-sensationalized.

Microsoft is probably silent because they're not sure what technology the final project will use. Some exec could've ignorantly opened their mouth about "html5+js" and left the Win8 engineers groaning.

It'd pretty clear to me that .NET/Silverlight/WPF aren't going away. They are too popular and there's too much activity around those technologies.

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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by politician on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @10:50AM (#2864217)
The Windows Phone 7 API is (more or less) a subset of Silverlight, and they share the same tools viz Expression Blend, XAML. From what I've read here on HN, it seems like there has been something of an exodus of key people from the Silverlight/WPF teams to other projects or companies.

That's all. Maybe I'm way off base.

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