Why change from WPF to Silverlight 4?

Question

I\'m working on an application we made WPF instead of Silverlight as we wanted a full blown desktop application with the whole unique feeling and advantages that gives. Howe

Answer 1

I'd like to add an opinion on performance differences.

In my experience, SL's graphics engine is much faster. I was unable to create a control similar to Silverlight's new pivot where thousands of elements move around smoothly in WPF, although with SL I get same the performance I see with pivot itself.

Also, WPF video playback appears to be struggling at only three or four videos on my machine, whereas with Silverlight I can play almost 50 simultaneously.

That is interesting because one would probably assume WPF to be faster.