Modern web applications are divided into a front end (visualization and interaction in the browser) and a back end (data processing on the server). At DrySoc, we rely on .NET 6 with the ASP.NET API framework in the backend, as this allows us to rework and reuse the old Silverlight code to a certain extent. In some cases, it is even possible to simply adopt it.
Angular or .NET Blazor is used for the frontend because this achieves a very good technological separation and old Silverlight components can be migrated quickly.
This gives you every opportunity to integrate current and future ideas and wishes.
How does migration take place?
After an initial phone call in which we get to know each other and you present the main challenges of your application, we carry out a rough analysis of the existing system together. Our DrySoc specialists gain an understanding of the existing application and develop a solution proposal and a rough price indication.
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Why DrySoc?
Why are we better suited than others?
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What happens to old Silverlight applications?
Drysoc automatically rewrites Silverlight applications and makes them fully usable on all common browsers even after Silverlight End of Life. This means that companies can continue to use their existing Silverlight applications without any problems despite Silverlight EOL and are no longer dependent on Microsoft's browsers.
What does Microsoft Silverlight End of Life mean?
Microsoft Silverlight was a plugin for many web browsers that could be used to play music and videos, for example. Silverlight used to be very popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. No current web browser still uses Silverlight and it was completely switched off in October 2021. Nevertheless, some companies still have applications that are based on the Silverlight framework.
Microsoft Silverlight was mostly a browser plugin that enabled the streaming and display of content such as videos and music, clickable menus and other types of rich media content. Silverlight was introduced in 2007 and was intended to compete with Adobe Flash Player, which was the de facto plugin for online media playback at the time, but is also now rarely used.
However, Silverlight had a turbulent history and was largely abandoned by Microsoft, various third-party developers and users around 2015.
What is Microsoft Silverlight?
Silverlight originally got off to a good start. The American broadcaster NBC even used Silverlight for the broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The plugin was available for most popular browsers for many years. Silverlight supported most video and animation formats such as MP3 and MPEG-4 as well as H.264 and WMV files directly, without forcing the user to download additional software or browser plug-ins.
With the introduction of HTML5, however, Silverlight became superfluous - this was the beginning of Silverlight's end of life, so to speak. HTML5 is a rich media solution that is already integrated into all modern web browsers and makes the additional installation of a plug-in such as Silverlight or Flash completely superfluous.
Major video providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime quickly switched from Silverlight to HTML5. Google Chrome also stopped supporting Silverlight in 2015 and Firefox in 2017. Macs have also not supported Silverlight since 2016. Even most versions of the in-house Internet Explorer have not used Silverlight since the beginning of 2020. The last major browser that continued to support Silverlight was Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10, but even this stopped supporting it at the end of 2021.
Silverlight End of Live (EOL)
However, since Silverlight has a perpetual license, existing Silverlight applications will not be shut down. It just means that they will no longer be updated and that it might be more difficult to find a browser that can run them.
What solutions are used today?
At Drysoc, we rely on .NET 6 because we can then rework and reuse the old Silverlight code to a certain extent, and in some cases it is even possible to simply adopt the code. Angular or .NET Blazor is used for the frontend because you can achieve a very good technological separation and quickly migrate old Silverlight components.
The alternative solution for old Silverlight applications
We use large parts of your Silverlight application in new frameworks and make your old applications future-proof with modern and future-proof technologies.