Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone - 11-September-2011 to 17-September-2011

It was a busy schedule this week and we experienced the latest news in Microsoft front. In BUILD event, Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview along with .Net 4.5 and Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview. After build session, people started discussing on the future of Silverlight and hence during the week this topic was top demanded.

Top posts were from @JeremyLikness, Scott M. Fulton, @mossyblog, Janvanderhaegen and Jonathan Allen. Find the top 5 posts of the week as well as daily digest links in this post.

Top 5 posts of the Week

There were lots of posts on various blogs, twitters regarding the future of Silverlight. Someone mentioned that Silverlight is dead and someone mentioned that still there is a future of Silverlight. We posted both of those articles in Silverlight-Zone, so that, you can read and analyse various thoughts. From my perspective I will say that, Silverlight was there – Silverlight is here – Silverlight will be there.

Let’s read the top 5 posts of the week, which are all related to Silverlight. Read both positive and negative points and decide. You will see that there are more positive points than the negative ones. Find them here:

If Silverlight is Dead - by @JeremyLikness

Once again speculation and worry has developers around the world biting their fingers and lamenting the end of a new era. It almost seems de...
Build 2011: What Is WinRT, and Is Silverlight Dead? - by Scott M. Fulton

Silverlight.pngThe Windows Runtime library (WinRT) is the principal provider of system services for applications in Windows 8 that will be d...
Silverlight is dead, dead and dead - by @mossyblog

I’ll give you a moment to let the booing simmer down. The reason I can safely say that is we haven’t seen a new hint at Silverlight vNext. W...
Build/ keynote: the future of LightSwitch: Silverlight or HTML5? - by janvanderhaegen

For those of you that don’t know, //build/ is Microsoft’s annual five day event for developers. Traditionally, during the keynote, Microsoft...
Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins - by Jonathan Allen

Though it has been hard, we have been trying to avoid reporting on rumors about the death of Silverlight for quite some time. As in all thin...

Daily News Headline of the Week

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Article authored by Kunal Chowdhury on Sunday, September 18, 2011

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