What features of WPF are excluded in Silverlight 3 ?

Question

Hi,

What WPF features were removed from Silverlight 3 ? I have found resources on graphing algorithms in WPF and am wondering how much of that I can transfer to a Silverlight application.

Thanks,

Scott

Answer 1

A lot of the 3D manipulation routines in Silverlight (esp. anything involving DirectX) can't be done in the silverlight plugin, so depending on what your graphing algorithm requires you may be out of luck, sorry to say.

But Microsoft has ported quite a bit of WPF to Silverlight 3 and I think the pleasant surprises will outnumber the unpleasant ones. If you're doing simple raster or vector graphing you may be able to pull it off.

Answer 2

It would be difficult to describe the differences exhaustively here, suffice to say they are considerable. Here are a couple of links that might help:-

XAML Processing Differences Between Silverlight and WPF

Guidance on Differences Between WPF and Silverlight

Bear in mind also that even common types in the silverlight core libraries may be missing or have missing features compared with those of the primary .NET library counterparts.