Real Silverlight Support in Windows Embedded Compact 7?

Question

So, Windows Embedded Compact 7 (another classic from the naming division) supports Silverlight for Windows Embedded.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/windowsce/compact7.mspx But this is C ++ only a stripped down version of Silverlight 2 XAML.

Does anyone know if Windows Embedded Compact 7 supports true Silverlight? This does not seem to match Windows Phone (which, in my opinion, is based on Windows CE 6), and the fact that Windows Embedded Compact 7 supports Flash 10.1.

Answer 1

Not in the first release, no, it will not support managed Silverlight (or IMO, which the whole world considers "Silverlight").

They may at some point transfer the work done by the Phone team to create a managed SL implementation, but they have not made any statements as to when or when this can happen.

Answer 2

You will see that the "Developers, Developers" Balmer came out later, as he did before, and admit that they made a mistake. Its developers who produce applications, and if you create all the Microsoft technologies, linq, wpf, ria and templates, such as the unexplored MVVM developers, will not trust you and switch to another platform. They dropped the ball on the phone OS without having a large consumer-oriented phone. Now they will focus on the fact that consumers are attached to the business developers they created on Windows Mobile. They did a great job with Silverlight 4, so I don’t understand how they can badly throw the ball on Compact 7.

Answer 3

I agree with the uneven development environment, but you should also bear in mind that the processor that currently powers the WP7 devices is not yet available in the general embedded market, where 1 GHz processors are a small minority, and 5-600 MHz processors are used only for hi-end devices. Trying to run both XAML and .NET runtime can lead to poor results and disappointing results. If you need RAD, use the Compact Framework. If you need a cool interface, use Silverlight for Windows Embedded. You cannot have both right now, as you can by telephone ...