How Hard Is It To Get Somebody Install Silverlight

Let me share a small conversation to my friend Melissa that just Happened. She is 100% non technical (Never heard of Silverlight) and just bought a new PC. Here is how I convince her to install Silverlight to her PC......


tanmoy says: hey
tanmoy says: did u install silverlight in ur computer
melissa says: ?
melissa says: no
tanmoy says: then do it.
tanmoy says: i m giving u the link
tanmoy says: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
tanmoy says: it will ask u to install it
melissa says: I'm not downloading it
tanmoy says: y not. its from Microsoft so u can be sure its safe
melissa says: I don't need it
tanmoy says: u need it
melissa says: Why do I need it
tanmoy says: there are lots of site using silverlight
melissa says: So
tanmoy says: so if u install it u can see those sites, play games
tanmoy says: listen to music ,watch videos and all
melissa says: I can do all of that without it
tanmoy says: but its something I am working on
melissa says: Yeah
melissa says: Then its not that good to have lol
tanmoy says: yes it is
melissa says: No it's not lol
tanmoy says: why dont u do it....
melissa says: Why should I do it
tanmoy says: cause it only take 1 min to be done
melissa says: I just don't want ten million of things downloaded on this computer
tanmoy says: and it doesnt slow down ur comp
tanmoy says: its not that
tanmoy says: its very small thing. around 4 MB only
melissa says: k
melissa says: lol
melissa says: Fine ill do it

Finally.....
So now I do understand why people says might be as much as 40% of uses go away from a site that needs Silverlight without installing it.

BTW according to RIA Statistics Silverlight has gained around 30% of user base already. Impressive ha !

Silverlight kid is here.......

Hi All,
I was never interested in coding but the moment my mentor Mr. Deepak Sharma asked me to learn silverlight, I fell in love with it. The first thing which I ever made in my life was a christmas card in silverlight 1.0, and fortunately everybody liked it. From then onwards there was no looking back.I continued to experiment with it. Silverlight has cast a spell on me and Tanmoy has always increased my interest in it .And now when Tanmoy asked me to contribute in this blog, I was thrilled.I would try to keep this spirit of silverlight alive in me and would try to enlighten others with the knowledge I acquire in this journey.
Thanks to Tanmoy!

Why I Shifted My Blog

I have been using Wordpress.com for my blogs for quite a long time. I did not have any problem until recenly. Now as I am building a blog for Silverlight I first chosen Wordpress. The problem I faced was I can not display my application in my blog using javascript or even iframe. That was really annoying as I need at least iframe support. I searched their forum and it clearly been said iframe support is a distant dream. After continuing for some days I finally changed it to "old friend" blogger.com. Now I changed the design a bit. I am not a designer and this blog might not look very nice to you :).Still it is more flexible than that is in Wordpress and I will try to continue this here.
Thanks

My Experience with Silverlight

I have started my programming life with Silverlight. So it might be that I see it from a different view than some others already been in animation and programming.

        The thrill that has been with it was its limited spread at that time. So there were hardly any people whom you can ask for help. The online rapid growing comunity has been a great comfort and still is. Some people really did excellent things that keep on impressing me.
        The first task was a presentation kind of thing to be done with Silverlight 1.0. The animations and design are done by Pallavi and I know only little about designing.

        As I am going through it and trying to explore more of it there are so many things to learn. After a bit break with Silverlight after 1.0 I am now back and working with Silverlight.

        I am not a writer and so I better stop now. I will try to keep on posting here some tips and tricks and workarounds that might help you save the time I have wasted to learn them.

Thanks all for visiting my blog. I will try to keep it alive.