Silverlight 2.0 and the Future of ASP.NET
Thursday, June 12 2008 - asp-net, silverlight
Mix08 was a lot of fun this year. I was very happy to see all the work that the IE 8 team has done to make IE 8 a usable browser to develop with. I might even start using it as my defacto browser over Firefox if it works as good as it demos.
For me, overshadowing the browser innovations, was the work done on Silverlight.
When you consider that as a web developer I spend a significant portion of my time and effort fighting browsers, trying to get the correct placement, cool effects, and dealing with the stateless nature of the web; a technology that makes all those headaches seem to go away is very compelling. AOL managed to rewrite their entire web based email application in Silverlight.
Why wouldn't I do the same? Why spend time and energy on a technology that suddenly seems rather dated? Are Silverlight (and I presume Adobe Air) the real browser killers? Do we rewind back to the days of client server type development where rich UI's are not a herculean effort? I for one, would welcome that change, but you have to wonder what Microsoft's position is. What is the future of ASP.NET and its technologies when Silverlight seems so much more compelling? Are scripted pages destined to become nothing more than containers used to launch plug-ins?
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