Real Silverlight Support on Windows Embedded Compact 7?

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Real Silverlight Support on Windows Embedded Compact 7?

So Windows Embedded Compact 7 (another classic from the naming department) supports Silverlight for Windows Embedded.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/compact7.mspx But this is a C++ only stripped down version of Silverlight 2 XAML.

Does anybody know if Windows Embedded Compact 7 will support real Silverlight? This seems to be out of step with Windows Phone (which I think is based on Windows CE 6) and the fact that Windows Embedded Compact 7 supports Flash 10.1.

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Not in the first release, no, it will not support managed Silverlight (or, IMO, what the entire world considers to be "Silverlight").

They may, at some point, move the work done by the Phone team to create a managed SL implementation, but they've made no announcements as to if or when that might ever occur.

ctacke 2010-06-02 18:40:06

So in one release Microsoft have managed to confuse everybody with a convoluted name (this has nothing to do with Windows Embedded). Plus fragmented their development platform. Plus confuse consumers with an OS that is not likely to receive any real attention from developers.It is crazy that the only way to develop .NET applications for this OS is to use the Compact Framework and the old WinForms controls.I thought Microsoft was a platforms company? Surely a consistent platform should be their #1 priority.

Joe Wood 2010-06-02 21:28:21

Well, it is really just the rename from Windows CE to Windows Embedded Compact. Then, as a Windows CE developer, I can tell you that we try to avoid managed code as it has a too high footprint and overhead (that's embedded development, not smartphone app development), so the native Silverlight is really welcome.

Lorenzo 2010-06-15 12:28:34

You'll see "Developers,Developers" Balmer come out later like he has done before and admit they made a mistake with this. Its the developers that produce the apps and if you make all the microsoft technologies linq, wpf, ria and patterns such as MVVM unuasable developers won't trust you and move to another platform. They dropped the ball on the Phone OS by not having a great consumer oriented phone. Now they will focus on consumers stick it to the business developers that they had built up on Windows Mobile. They did a great job with the silverlight 4 so I don't understand how they can drop the ball this badly on Compact 7.

Joe 2010-06-26 20:55:35

This is specifically about CE, *not* Windows Phone (which is managed Silverlight), so you're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft's decision to do a C++ implementation of a XAML framework makes sense in light of the fact that it foremost needs performance on any potential target. I think the framework is a good idea and a good implementation, I just have a disagreement with calling is "Silverlight".

ctacke 2010-06-27 17:57:28

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