Comments on: Flirting With Silverlight

By: UnrealEngine3 and Unity3D now free

UnrealEngine3 and Unity3D now free — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:06:49 +0000

[...] was limited to a per-pixel procedure, significantly limiting your rendering options. I took a C# Silverlight example submitted by Joa Ebert, and lightly modified it to run in Unity3D, and was faced with the same amount of particles, but by [...]

By: Ashish Roy

Ashish Roy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:19:05 +0000

Flash definitely is facing a stiff competition from Silverlight. Any information on market adoption and flash vs. SL rates?

By: Philip the Duck

Philip the Duck — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:45:32 +0000

This poll, by Tim Heuer @Microsoft, is interestingly timed, too – I would assume most of the responders so far are already C# / Silverlight developers; what do flash geeks think?

“Do you have a need to convert SWF (Flash) assets to Silverlight? Maybe some with ActionScript?”: http://twtpoll.com/r/knuzik

By: EFVincent

EFVincent — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:53:22 +0000

Joa – great article. I’ve posted about taking your SL3 implementation and altering it to use multithreading in the code that clears and then updates the pixels in the bitmap. Check it out at

http://blog.efvincent.com/concurrency-optimization-silverlight

And let me know what you think! Again… great work.
-e

By: Adding Concurrency Optimization in Silverlight 3

Adding Concurrency Optimization in Silverlight 3 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:18:24 +0000

[...] a week ago Joa Ebert posted Flirting with Silverlight, in which he discussed his experiences with a cool little application Lorenz attractor application [...]

By: Chris Toshok: Moonlight 2.0 beta 1 | Full-Linux.com

Chris Toshok: Moonlight 2.0 beta 1 | Full-Linux.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:02:08 +0000

[...] Attractor, from Joa Ebert’s Flirting With Silverlight blog [...]

By: pleased precariously » Moonlight 2.0 beta 1

pleased precariously » Moonlight 2.0 beta 1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:17:07 +0000

[...] Attractor, from Joa Ebert’s Flirting With Silverlight blog [...]

By: Find Northamptonshires in Cleveland

Find Northamptonshires in Cleveland — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:57:50 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:34:11 +0000

@Jonas

yes, but not for the reason you’re suggesting.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:10:45 +0000

John – do you think that maybe the recent release of SL3 might have something to do with it? Those that started checking it out after that should be coming out with opinions right about now…

BTW, some interesting demand graphs here:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/silverlight.do
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/flash.do

By: Miguel de Icaza: Silverlight/C#, Flash/ActionScript 3 and Canvas/Javascript | Full-Linux.com

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:05:11 +0000

[...] his Flirting with Silverlight post: Lately a lot of discussion had the ActionScript language as its focus. People start [...]

By: NewAgeSolution

NewAgeSolution — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:09:26 +0000

I am not sure how much Silverlight has impact on Flash community but I am definitely living it everyday how Silverlight is impacting .Net community which is much larger then Flash in my opinion. Because now my company is beginning to receive lots of request on creating Silverlight application. Interesting thing is all my creative artist are Flash developers in fact when we prototype they are creating mock up using Flash and then porting it over to Silverlight. At least from my experience in given time I think Flash community will benefit from it in that mix of great designers from Flash community mixed with great pool of developers from .Net will make Silverlight that much more attractive.

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:17:32 +0000

@Dave R

Completely, if silverlight *were* making an impact, I would be inclined to agree with you. It’s not though. At all.

I know a lot of flash developers, and all the migration I am seeing is to Unity, I-phone and Flex….. except for a couple of high-profile bloggers, being some of the same people who suddenly decide that AS3 isn’t that good in the same week.

If noticing something is weird == being rude, then yes, I concede that too.

By: Dave R.

Dave R. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:35:12 +0000

@John – your insinuation is incredibly rude. Can’t you just accept that the new Silverlight release may be having an impact and some Flash devs are trying it out for the first time, then blogging about their findings? Not everything is a conspiracy.

By: Anurag’s Blog » Flirting With Silverlight at blog.joa-ebert.com - Blog of Joa Ebert

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:01:29 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:06:52 +0000

James – Unity also uses C#

Interestingly, getting silverlight setup and published is a pain in the neck compared to either unity or flash, C# is about the only thing attractive about silverlight development.

Microsoft originally had this pipedream about getting all of their .Net developers switching to silverlight and suddenly taking the place of the flash dev community.

This didn’t happen, so I guess Microsoft’s only option is to somehow start bribing/bringing flash developers over to their platform. It’s actually pretty transparent…