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NoodleFolk
NoodleFolk

Reputation: 2029

Alternative to Silverlight in Dynamics CRM

Looks like Microsoft is phasing out silverlight1, what are good alternatives to silverlight to build feature rich UIs? I suppose one could roll his own HTML web resource and javascript and interact with the Xrm API.

1: I've read on numerous places that there will not be a SilverLight 6, and no future road map for SL.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1335

Answers (2)

Abhinav Ranjan
Abhinav Ranjan

Reputation: 146

Choose your option carefully. 1. Silverlight Support is not ending soon, Look at the road map of the solution you are building, also consider if you'll be doing development from scratch or you have components that you can reuse.

  1. Silverlight in going down because everyone is now supporting HTML5/CSS3.0/JavaScript. That is most logical alternative available to you.

  2. While developing your HTML 5 component make sure you are doing in a supported manner and taking care of Cross Browser compatibility in your code as Microsoft is releasing cross browser compatible version of Dynamics CRM and you don't want your solution to break once that's out.

iPad support is already available for OnLine users.

Upvotes: 1

Konrad Viltersten
Konrad Viltersten

Reputation: 39058

It's going to take a while before the support for SilverLight is entirely down. However, to asnwer your question, I believe that the most appropriate course is to start focusing on custom web resources deploying HTML5 components powered by JavaScript.

Upvotes: 7

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