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JimDel
JimDel

Reputation: 4359

Is developing Silverlight free, and will it stay that way?

As far as I can tell developing for Silverlight is free as long as you already have Visual Studio 2008. Does anyone know if MS has any plans to change that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 263

Answers (4)

Jim Lynn
Jim Lynn

Reputation: 1031

And if Visual Studio isn't your cup of tea, there's always Eclipse Tools for Silverlight which is also free.

Upvotes: 1

Reshure
Reshure

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You can develop Silverlight applications using Visual Web Developer Express, which is free.

And I don't think Microsoft has plans changing that, because that would mean they get a lot less new Silverlight developers, and it would take longer for Silverlight to catch up to Flash.

Upvotes: 4

Kamran Khan
Kamran Khan

Reputation: 9986

Silverlight framework itself is a free download from Microsoft. What exactly do you mean, when you say "developing for Silverlight is free"?

Upvotes: 2

jle
jle

Reputation: 9489

If anything, they will try to make it easier and cheaper. One recent program is called WebSiteSpark... which gives away all of the Microsoft Web Dev tools. This is because of increased competition between Microsoft and competing technologies such as those provided by Adobe.

Upvotes: 4

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