

I've stopped advocating any new technologies from Microsoft. As a developer, my questions are very simple: Why did Microsoft do such a strange thing to lose the trust of developers? Why can't Microsoft simply continue supporting/advocating Silverlight and, at the same time, advocate future HTML5 as a new trend and development path? As a developer, I feel Microsoft has a lose/lose strategy. Now we cannot go back to undo our investment. I cannot describe the feelings of betrayal and frustration - not to mention the pressure coming from the upper management team.

When we were in the middle of implementation, Microsoft dropped the bomb about the future of Silverlight.

The investment was tremendous, including manpower and learning processes. I convinced my company to use Silverlight in a very important product. NET to HTML/JS/CSS? Haven't you heard the angry Silverlight developers?"Īlso back in 2012, many Visual Studio Magazine readers reacted to the impending demise of Silverlight, with one stating: NET developers' outcry a year ago about MS moving the application development focus from. For example, one comment in the 2012 article said: "Haven't you heard the. The latter item in the above list, Expression Web, was even the subject of its own article (" Microsoft Abandons Expression Web and Front End Web Development") in which Silverlight was mentioned many times. It's a subjective thing, but some of these products might include Visual Basic, Microsoft Liquid Motion, Microsoft Blend, Microsoft WebMatrix, Microsoft LightSwitch for Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Web (and maybe toss UWP into the mix). Many enjoyed and even still enjoy strong developer support. So it's dead already, for all practical purposes, and it joins a host of other development products deprecated by Microsoft. No Silverlight for You (source: Microsoft).
