White Paper: Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 cross platform development

October 11th, 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

Last week I gave a presentation at a joint Scott Logic / Microsoft event about how WPF and Silverlight are unifying the development platform for desktop, web and mobile. To accompany the talk I wrote a white paper which delves into this subject in a little more detail.

You can download the whitepaper here: WPF and Silverlight Cross Platform Development White Paper (PDF, 1.8 MBytes)

Or view it online in the PDF viewer below:

I also created a cross platform application that has a 75% shared codebase between the WPF (desktop), Silverlight (web) and Windows Phone 7 (mobile) versions. I plan to share more of this at a later date.

Any thoughts, ideas or comments, please share them below.

Regards,
Colin E.

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7 Responses to “White Paper: Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 cross platform development”

  1. Gergely Orosz on Cocktail Flow WP7 application says:
    November 18, 2010 at 8:54 am

    [...] can be easily ported to the desktop – and with Windows Phone 7 – to mobile as well (see the white paper of my colleague on this). I think Silverlight will have an even more important role in cross platform (web, mobile [...]

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  2. Matt says:
    November 3, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    Good article Colin and I particularly like the use of the widely understood “Font” visualisation example. I think you also bring out an important point – convergence of code across delivery platform’s is important, but form factors will always create an upper limit. Still 75% common code is much better than 0%! Any chance of expanding on Xaml Finance in a following up post?

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