When I made my first in-deep contact with Silverlight (DevReach'07) I have a lot of difficulties to explain to everyone what is Silverlight.
When I told to my parents that I won on European Silverlight Challenge they ask me what I have done...
I told them ".... hmm... application...no... program... no .... luck I made one ...hmmm.... BINGO... I made game on Silverlight..."
And that was enough because they know that previously work something on my PC that move tings around, blinks, flash, drags, (they were Flash web sites and multimedia CD).
The problem comes when I need to explain the differences to someone that knows what can be done in Flash, but he has no clue how is done.
So searching for right answers and words and sentences to explain myself, I land myself on Chad's Blog. and look what I found:
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Isn't this just a .NET Flash?
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And WPF/E was what?
- Isn't this just a .NET Java?
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Why didn't Microsoft just expand on SVG?
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That was THE solution for my problems, so before you start preaching to everyone about Silverlight, read this and be prepared for exactly this type of questions.