Comments on: New Ballistics App http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/08/07/new-ballistics-app/ The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:01:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dave http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/08/07/new-ballistics-app/#comment-47345 dave Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:16:56 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=12195#comment-47345 I'm gonna go with Microsoft paid them hard cash to program in silverlight in an attempt to drive up their install base :). I’m gonna go with Microsoft paid them hard cash to program in silverlight in an attempt to drive up their install base :).

]]> By: gattsuru http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/08/07/new-ballistics-app/#comment-47341 gattsuru Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:28:07 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=12195#comment-47341 Silverlight's got its advantages. Most of them are programmer-centric -- it's very C# and WPF, making it a lot easier for people without experience to get into than Flash's AS. You can also handle the rest of a web page from the Silverlight program, which lets you avoid the condition Flash programs often generate where much of a page ends up dominated by Flash. Microsoft's also willing to bend over backwards (if not further) to encourage people to use Silverlight, especially large vendors, and especially vendors with unusual target markets. They've got to get their userbase up to have a chance of competing with Flash at all, and they're willing to spend money today to get that done. For groups without a significant web development presence, this is a major help. The biggest advantage is that Silverlight started as a programming language, where Flash is more of a script language. With AS3 and the improved IDE, it's more and more possible to get a number of advanced features in without going insane writing them, but the intent of the languages are different. That's not to say that Silverlight's the best choice for [i]this[/i] application -- it'd be a pretty cut and dry setup within AS3 -- but it does have a purpose in general. Silverlight’s got its advantages. Most of them are programmer-centric — it’s very C# and WPF, making it a lot easier for people without experience to get into than Flash’s AS. You can also handle the rest of a web page from the Silverlight program, which lets you avoid the condition Flash programs often generate where much of a page ends up dominated by Flash.

Microsoft’s also willing to bend over backwards (if not further) to encourage people to use Silverlight, especially large vendors, and especially vendors with unusual target markets. They’ve got to get their userbase up to have a chance of competing with Flash at all, and they’re willing to spend money today to get that done. For groups without a significant web development presence, this is a major help.

The biggest advantage is that Silverlight started as a programming language, where Flash is more of a script language. With AS3 and the improved IDE, it’s more and more possible to get a number of advanced features in without going insane writing them, but the intent of the languages are different.

That’s not to say that Silverlight’s the best choice for [i]this[/i] application — it’d be a pretty cut and dry setup within AS3 — but it does have a purpose in general.

]]> By: Robb Allen http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/08/07/new-ballistics-app/#comment-47322 Robb Allen Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:51:41 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=12195#comment-47322 Um. I apparently don't have the <i>latest</i> Flash and am constantly asked to install <b>that</b>, so using one technology over another isn't always so cut and dry. Plus, for us .Net (Microsoft) developers, I can reuse existing code with Silverlight. With Flash, I have to rewrite everything from scratch as far as the UI goes. Um. I apparently don’t have the latest Flash and am constantly asked to install that, so using one technology over another isn’t always so cut and dry.

Plus, for us .Net (Microsoft) developers, I can reuse existing code with Silverlight. With Flash, I have to rewrite everything from scratch as far as the UI goes.

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