Is it possible to develop with Silverlight on a Mac?

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Is it possible to develop with Silverlight on a Mac?

I've been searching through the Microsoft Silverlight site, and I am guessing the answer to my question will be no.

But is there any non official or official version of the Silverlight development SDK for Mac OS?

I want to avoid installing Windows, but I want to develop in Silverlight.

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Assuming the answer you get does turn out to be "No"...

I use a VM (Parallels) to run Windows XP on my Mac Pro. The performance of Visual Studio 2008 is actually fine in this setup.

Eric 2009-04-04 14:47:04

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The answer is yes, you surely can. You will need to use eclipse. It isn't as easy, but it sure is possible.

Good luck!

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Jeremiah 2009-04-04 14:49:03

Wow! Interesting!

Joachim Sauer 2009-04-06 19:21:55

Darn, video requires Silverlight ... I could have anticipated this, but disappointing anyway.

Joachim Sauer 2009-04-06 19:23:21

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There is also MonoDevelop which is going to support it soon, but its not quite there.

Shawn Wildermuth 2009-04-05 05:11:03

Would this develop Moonlight apps only, or would they work with Silverlight too?

Andy 2009-04-06 19:26:05

Mono has a ways to go on Silverlight support. Moonlight covers only the Silverlight 1.0 API, I believe. It's good enough for streaming media right now, but not much else.

Adam Lassek 2009-04-06 19:27:45

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I'm using Mac OS X to develop with Silverlight 3, using IronRuby and IronPython and TextMate. It is very pleasant to use!

You can grab the Silverlight 3 Beta Runtime for Mac here and use it together with AgDlr. Grab the binaries of AgDlr here.

If you want to see samples of code that do work this way, have a look at AgDlr demos.

hope this helps!

Thibaut Barrère 2009-06-28 06:48:51

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