Starting from today I am attending a four day MOSS 2007 Boot Camp. The instructor is Mick Badran of Breeze Training. He was pretty excited about Silverlight and encouraged us, the students, to start learning it and utilising it together with SharePoint.
He said deploying Silverlight on SharePoint will bring great benefits to the user experience aspect of a site. Instead of transferring a web page of several hundred kilo bytes each time, Silverlight can make the interaction much smoother by transferring a smaller chunk of data. And even though AJAX can also achieve similar reductions in network traffic, for a .NET developer, coding in Silverlight will be much easier than JavaScript.
I was already quite interested in learning Silverlight. After hearing him extolling its benefit, I am even more excited to deep dive into this technology.
Tuesday 11 March 2008
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