I know there are developers out there looking at Silverlight thinking that it’s just another media delivery platform and that Microsoft is just trying to gain market share over Adobe in this area. However, the truth, I am convinced, is much different. The overlooked aspect of Silverlight that will make the biggest impact in the Rich Internet Application space is the support for Line-of-Business applications to be developed in Silverlight.
This past Monday The Knowledge Chamber posted an interview with Brad Abrams on Channel 9 in which Brad gives us a few teasers about the LOB support being added to Silverlight 3.0. In the interview Brad shows us the new project template for a Silverlight project that gives a default design to your Silverlight application and that design will apparently be swappable for other default designs. There is also a short preview of new datagrid features and a new details view control. He also highlights the new “Deep Link” feature that allows you to access specific places in your Silverlight application via a URI. The only down part is that we have to wait until MIX09 to see the full feature set, but luckily that’s only another week!
Tags: .net, silverlight, silverlight 3