Microsoft Silverlight Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 3.4 out of 10

Score

3.4 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Don't get caught up in dead technology

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our application that we sell uses Silverlight as its web front end. That application is core to our business. The organization sells, deploys, and maintains this application. We have been developing in Silverlight for almost 10 years at this point and it is now deprecated

Pros

Provided features not regularly avaible in I.E

Cons

No longer being supported
No upkeep with ria services
Be nice to work in a modern browser

Likelihood to Recommend

No suited for future development. Only useful if maintaining legecy application

Kiel Knisely

Software Engineer in Engineering at Avail Technologies, Inc. (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

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Microsoft Silverlight - Ready to ship anywhere!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 25, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Silverlight company-wide. The product is necessary for our UPS shipping portal. With multiple locations and 200+ remote users, UPS is critical to getting company equipment to where it needs to go and we couldn't print our labels or use the portal without Microsoft Silverlight.

Pros

Silverlight interprets XAML directly
Take your .NET code cross-platform
Third-party component vendors are already well on with Silverlight add-ons

Cons

No support for the popular H.264 video codec
Another effort to promote proprietary technology rather than open standards
Silverlight is a browser-only solution

Likelihood to Recommend

The Silverlight plug-in means developers can target a single, consistent runtime for browser-based apps, rather than working with the complexity of multiple browsers in different versions. You also get video and multimedia effects that are hard or impossible with pure HTML and JavaScript, though Adobe Systems' Flash has the same advantages.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Why we want Silverlight back

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Silverlight is used in several units in my company. It's one of the best tools when you need to quickly prepare a web application. There's no need to use JavaScript anymore for client side actions/visualizations. The reason why it's not more popular is that Microsoft decided to discontinue Silverlight and is only supporting it until 2020.

Pros

Easy to implement
No need for additional frameworks on client side
Out of browser capabilities

Cons

Cient side office support
Additional controls

Likelihood to Recommend

We use it for almost all kinds of applications. It's not important if the app is small or big. It's good for DB connections, SOA architecture, office files transformations. The good thing is that it's client side, so we don't have to waste our server resources but can use the client's computer for business and visualization layer.

Mateusz Michałek

Ekspert in Finance and Accounting at Orange Polska (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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Silverlight, a gem of a product

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Microsoft Silverlight for our Mediasite website. Mediasite is an online portal to upload recorded lectures for medical students. It enhances video playback and optimizes the streaming which was a very problematic issue with our previous software. Currently it is only used on campus and within the medical school and not clinical sites.

Pros

Reliable
Dependable
Innovative
Creative

Cons

Sometimes crashes
Video recording functionality would be ideal

Likelihood to Recommend

The most important question to ask about is compatibility. First you must ensure that it works well with your current operating software and hardware especially crossover to Mac systems. Secondly, it works best for content housed on internal servers as opposed to off a remote server which requires connectivity which can be an issue

Zubair Ahmed

Resident Physician in Professional Services at Ross University School of Medicine (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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