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No, as a WPF/Silverlight developer, I think those technologies failed to take off because the development workflow of WPF/Silverlight simply sucks ass. Expressi
by jinushaun 15y ago
No, as a WPF/Silverlight developer, I think those technologies failed to take off because the development workflow of WPF/Silverlight simply sucks ass. Expression Blend is awful and is incompatible enough with VS that it becomes a nuisance to use.
XAML, WPF and Silverlight were designed by .NET developers for .NET developers, but marketed towards designers. You cannot develop/design in that ecosystem without already knowing C#, VS project and solution files. The workflow was very dev-centric, and that's why I think it failed to take off as MS would like.
- teyc 15y agoWell, the tools may be awful, but designers are not easily persuaded to change their tools. Even today, Photoshop trumps Illustrator in popularity. There is no workflow from PSD to HTML other than a secondary market of slicers. If MS wished to succeed, it had to bring the same familiar workflow into the process. The workflow was very dev-centric, and that's why I think it failed to take off as MS would like. +1