Silverlight或ASP.NET

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            <div class="grid--cell mb0 mt8">Closed <span title="2013-03-15 09:05:13Z" class="relativetime">7 years ago</span>.</div>
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What's the advantage of one over the other? I am so tempted to implement everything in silverlight now, so is ASP.NET, in particular, with Ajax, going to be dead?

For an enterprise solution especially, with 100+ views and 1000+ pages, is it still feasible?

Why isn't silverlight adopted that much by most enterprises? It is mostly used for videos and galleries, etc.

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Silverlight is a client-side based solution. It's a miniature .NET runtime and Windows Presentation Foundation package, rolled into one and made (somewhat) cross-platform.

Silverlight won't work on your iPhone, it won't work on really old PCs, etc... You can use it in the enterprise, but if you're doing an enterprise based app based on it, you should probably just develop your stuff in WPF and get all of the features of .NET.

Silverlight isn't adopted much because either A) enterprises are using Windows Forms or WPF because they can or B) because it's relatively new to the game, and it remains to be seen how much traction it will get in the marketplace vs. Flash and Java.