sagesky36
sagesky36

Reputation: 4692

Ajax, JSON, jQuery in Silverlight

Can you use Ajax, JSON & jQuery in a Silverlight application?

I have an opportunity with another job where silverlight is predominantly used. They will convert over to something like MVC in about a 1 - 2 years (in C#). However, I have picked up and learned a lot of Ajax, JSON & jQuery and don't want to lose those skills.

Furthermore, there are no webforms (of which, I have 8 years experience).

I know I will lose the webform skills (although I never really will, since I have so much experience in it).

70% of the code is in vb.net (I know both, but like c# a lot better).

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 330

Answers (1)

Anthony Grist
Anthony Grist

Reputation: 38345

I don't see why not.

AJAX is a means for the browser to retrieve data from a web server asynchronously.

JSON is a language independent way to represent a JavaScript object.

jQuery is a JavaScript framework and runs client-side.

None of the above are specific to any server-side technology, so you should be able to transfer your knowledge easily to working with Silverlight web applications; the only part that's going to change is the server-side implementation.

Upvotes: 1

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