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Why we want Silverlight back
March 17, 2017

Why we want Silverlight back

Mateusz Michałek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Silverlight

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.
  • Easy to implement
  • No need for additional frameworks on client side
  • Out of browser capabilities
  • Cient side office support
  • Additional controls
  • Quick development - low cost
  • Quick development - quick implementation
  • Quick development - easy for scrum development
There's no need to connect ASP.NET with JavaScript to get what they both can give us. Without Silverlight we always needed to merge sync and async technologies in order to achieve a nice and responsive GUI in web applications. We can only hope that Microsoft will go back to Silverlight instead of HTML 5 and JavaScript.
Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata Database, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
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.