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Silverlight for Windows Mobile - analysis
January 01, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R.

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(on photo above: Silverlight application running inside of Windows Mobile)

Here is analysis of the Silverlight situation in Windows Mobile:

Silverlight, which is a Microsoft's copy of Adobe Flash technology, is NOT available for Windows Mobile, neither officially nor unofficially. In other words: you can't get it on the Internet at all.

Internally, inside of Microsoft there is a MSI file with installation of Silverlight for Windows Mobile, it is called "Silverlight 2 for Windows Mobile December 2008 CTP MSI".

Furthermore to develop applications for Silverlight, including Silverlight Mobile, one needs: Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK, AcitveSync (for Windows XP) or Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (for Windows Vista), Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Emulator Images, Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Development of Silverlight applications is very similar to .NET development and is also done in C# language.

Developers might be interested to know, that certain Microsoft employee has uploaded sample Silverlight project - which is a photo viewing web application with carousel and float modes - and it is available here in a RAR file with sample Visual Studio project with sample Silverlight code. Interestingly 2 HTML files are available there TestPage.html and TestPage.Mobile.html, what indicates that Silverlight for Windows Mobile is a bit different than regular Silverlight (now available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux). If you have Silverlight in your browser, you can get a feeling of this sample application by going to:
msmobiles.com/silverlight

Conclusions:

there is no Silverlight for Windows Mobile available now - official or not
for sure, 100% certain is that Windows Mobile 6.1.4 and later versions of Windows Mobile will have new Internet Explorer Mobile 6, that has built-in support for Silverlight
it is not certain whether Microsoft will offer Silverlight as download for existing Windows Mobile phones (i.e. with version older than 6.1.4) - while such package exists, it is now available only inside of Microsoft and it is not clear whether Microsoft will actually release it to the world
Silverlight is using .NET technology and all .NET code can be decoded easily (i.e. source code in C# language can be seen) - so there is no protection of intellectual property - to protect intellectual property developers will have to move some logic to the server side and use Silverlight as a way to make nicely looking front-ends only

See also also a video of above mentioned sample Silverlight application (Flash-equipped browser required to view it as YouTube is not supporting Silveright):

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