When Will Silverlight Ship?

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

DrewPierce — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:10:27 GMT

will RSA be implemented in .Security ?

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

kamii47 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:44:39 GMT

Agreed with WebLog of Ken Cox.

Silverlight 2 Will Ship "Later This Fall" - On Oct 27 or Nov 22?

WebLog of Ken Cox — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:01:18 GMT

Many architects and developers have enterprise projects in the works that depend on the release of Silverlight

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

kamii47 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:52:36 GMT

Nice Info, That Mean's in betwenn September to december there will be final RTM .

Let see any Release Candidate comes or not

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

Ken Cox [MVP] — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:10:24 GMT

Scott Guthrie says Silverlight 2 "will ship later this fall."

www.microsoft.com/.../09-09silverlight.mspx

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

Ken Cox [MVP] — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:20:27 GMT

Further to my speculation on the RTM of Silverlight 2 on October 27th, note Telerik's roadmap:

"The official release of RadControls for Silverlight is planned for Q3 2008, the beginning of November."

www.telerik.com/.../roadmap.aspx

BTW, the Telerik SL2 controls are awesome!

Ken

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

dsr9996 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:56:09 GMT

Silverlight is awesome, and I look forward to its release--there are bugs, yes, and there will be when it's released, as there are with an 1.0 product (and really even though it is 2.0 it is more like 1.0 because of how radically augmented it is from 1.0).

Thanks for your hard work on this, Microsoft guys!

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

kamii47 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:09:32 GMT

In Scott Guthries Blog Post for Silverlight beta 2 he has mentioned that there will be Release Candidate Before RTM.

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

jesseliberty — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:22:12 GMT

Two comments to respond to. First the slippage in the date of the book I'm writing with Tim has nothing to do with the release date of Silverlight; you have my word. It has to do with a publishing decision on quality vs. time to market and making sure that the book is, frankly, the best book I've ever written; up to everyone's expecttions and (I hope) one of the very best books on Silverlight. That is taking longer than I'd have guessed.

As for the Go-Live license, I'm very confused; as far as I know a broad commercial go-live license was made available with Silverlight2 Beta 2.

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

samcov — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:55:10 GMT

Having been burned by that agressive schedule posted earlier, it looks like MS is twice shy.

Add to that the fact that there are so many show stopping issues, rich text, printing, WPF compatibility, XAMLWriter, Visual Studio Designer, VS stability, Drawing support, and many more, it's clear that just being competitive to Flex is going to be tough.

The Olympics and the DNC were essentially missed opportunities. With a chance to seed SL to a lot of users, they were seeded with a version that will have a ton of breaking changes.

Developers need to be VERY careful with SL right now. If you are building small stuff, you're probably ok. If you're trying to build a large app, you really have to watch that you use things that you determine are most likely to not change.

I think the breaking changes may be worse than the last change from Beta 1 to Beta 2. It could get real ugly(lol).

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

shaggygi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:58:59 GMT

I noticed Liberty and Heuer's SL2 book date on Amazon jumped from Nov 08 to Feb 09. That's scary if Ken is correct.

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

Ken Cox [MVP] — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Although Microsoft pretends it doesn't have deadlines for products, it certainly has target timelines. (Would anything ever ship without *some* pressure?)

You can safely predict that the PDC keynotes will include a few phrases that start with "That's why I'm announcing today the release of...."

Given that Silverlight 2 beta 2 was effectively in production use during the Olympics, it's not a big stretch to suggest an official Silverlight 2 release to Web (RTW) on October 27th at 8:30 a.m. (PST) in LA when Ray Ozzie takes to the stage for his keynote.

BTW, you can also watch book publishing dates for clues on when a Microsoft product is coming out. Book publishers have an uncanny knack of predicting months in advance "when the product is ready to ship" - even if Microsoft doesn't. <grin>

Ken

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

alvipeo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:06:06 GMT

Same here - I'm in the preparation phase of the development of RIA application and I have to choose the technology for it. With the unknown dates it's a difficult decision - I really want to use 'light but my management considers Flex also. ... So, I inclined them to WPF which is not really a perfect solution.

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

Babba — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:00:57 GMT

I've tryed to use duplex service but i have some problems... i hope in next release it is stable.

I hope also to see moore examples about using this new feature...

re: When Will Silverlight Ship?

miantosca — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:27:48 GMT

I am eager to know when it will RTM as well - I am at the start of a big RIA project and I need to advise my client on picking Silverlight or Flash. I don't want them to get caught waiting an unknown length of time for the final release. And I REALLY don't want to work in Flash!