Herding Code: Episode 22: Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer on the Silverlight 2 Release

This week we talk to Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer about the Silverlight 2 release.

Topics

• What’s new?
• The releationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2
• The Eclipse for Silverlight development
• The Open Specification Promise for XAML
• Progress on Mono / Moonlight
• The elevator speech on Silverlight
• How Silverlight fits in with AJAX
• Can Silverlight support separation of concerns and testability?
• Will Microsoft be shipping frameworks for Silverlight?
• Will Silverlight support offline scenarios
• Silverlight as a “line of business” platform
• The WPF / Silverlight connection
• The Silverlight open source community
• The Flash question
• The casual gaming market
• Silverlight performance vs. Javascript
• Speculation on Silverlight 3 features…
• The non-Windows development experience
• The Silverlight story for iPhone and other mobile platforms

Questions from listeners

• What’s the story on Prism for Silverlight 2? What’s the story for enterprise Apps? (Chris Bilson)
• What’s being done to encourage enterprise adoption, in a climate where many enterprise shops are still on IE6? (Eric Kemp)
• What’s IE’s relationship with Silverlight? (Matt Hamilton)

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Herding Code 22: Brad Abrams and Tim Heuer on the Silverlight 2 Release