by Marius Gheorghe
10. July 2009 13:56
I've started working on a pet project in Silverlight a few days ago (using VS 2008). And frankly there are quite a few problems with Silverlight itself and support for it in Visual Studio :
- the designer is useless. Basically there is NO designer support (meaning drag and drop) for both Silverlight 2 and 3 in Visual Studio 2008.
- no *proper* SOAP Web Services support. Instead web services are invoked using WCF backward compatibility model and, here is the kick, are async ONLY. Async calls would make sense if Silvelight didn't have threads.....but since it has threads, why the heck am I forced to call everything aysnc ?! Also SOAP headers are not properly supported event though these guys say otherwise.
- still not enough controls.