Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?

Some comments.: In a certain sense, Microsoft arrived at Silverlight in the reverse process of Adobe arriving at AIR. By that I mean, AIR is way to build desktop apps using web technologies, where as Silverlight is way to build web apps with desktop technologies.

Why would Microsoft need a specific competitor to AIR when it already has a vastly more capable and mature way of building desktop apps in .Net?

Its also worth noting that there is will be a good deal of compatibility between Silverlight and WPF. Take a look at ScottGu's recent tutorial on this blog. The final part should how simple it was to take a silverlight app and make it into a desktop top. People have described Silverlight 2.0 as WPF for the browser, but its more accurate to say its a .Net runtime for the browser.

As for the offline support in Silverlight, I think this would be an interesting addition, but I think its more important from Microsoft to get Silverlight 2.0 RTM'd, at the moment.

As for "web apps strategy", this is really nothing new for Microsoft. There are a wealth of technologies already in .Net to support this, for example their ClickOnce deployment stuff. (Also worth nothing that thy have Live Write desktop blogging tool, and Live Photo Gallery).; Posted by: TheTruthisOutThere@... Posted on: 03/02/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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