Silverlight vs Flex

Question

My company develops several types of applications. A lot of our business comes from doing multimedia-type apps, typically done in Flash. However, now that side of the hous

Answer 1

Silverlight programmer's don't know what they're missing out on, when it comes to Flex. Silverlight lacks the component model and event triggering capabilites that Flex has. Using XNA, and C#, a friend of mine has to jump through all kinds of hoops to get his Silverlight application to work. Then, it has to be handed off to a designer to get it to look half way decent.

Listen to the deepfriedbytes.com podcasts on Silverlight, and you'll hear how even a couple guys that really push Silverlight, acknowledge some of these issues. (I think, if I recall correctly, one of the guys works for Microsoft, but I could be wrong - I listened to it last week). They agree that Silverlight isn't quite ready for any huge applications, in its current state.

I would go with Flex, for a nice clean, straightforward approach - especially if you're already familiar with Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Flex makes alot more sense, in my opinion - Silverlight still has to mature.