![]() They will support those browsers until end of mainstream Silverlight support (2021) or until the browsers own support ends WHICH EVER IS SHORTER! So that means if IE ends of life sooner, they get to stop supporting it sooner. The support lifecycle page links to a page with supported browsers and has an interesting note. The real concern must be out customers and their interface to Silverlight, the browser. In reality those are tools, we can continue to use them long after end of life (as the SQL team forces ANYONE who wants to create reports for SQL 2000 or 2005 will know). What is it’s life? It is listed as 2017! So do not expect you current Lightswitch projects to continue until then! The other tool we must consider is Lightswitch, which is based on Silverlight. Visual Studio has a trend of 5 years support so expect bugs in tooling to no longer be fixed after that. However there is NO promise for further tooling updates, which means that VS 11 & Blend 5 are likely the last releases to support Silverlight. This means we can expect Visual Studio 11 and Blend 5 to support it. Tooling is promised for a minimum of 12 months after release which means that Visual Studio & Blend releases 12 months following the release of Silverlight 5 will support it. It does not mean tools or browsers will support it! Both are listed on the Silverlight page so they have given us this info too. you find a bug, you log it with support, you wait a while, you get a fix). The ability to request non-security hotfixes (i.e.I’ve used this in the past and gotten hotfixes and general installation help on other products. You can contact Microsoft and ask for help.Mainstream support (as defined on the Microsoft website) means Does that mean browsers will work & Visual Studio will work? Maybe is the real answer. So what does that REALLY mean to us? Mainstream support will end in 2021. Before I continue this post is about Silverlight on the desktop not Silverlight on the phone which is a different thing all together, I have very different views to Silverlight on the phone. This implies that this release will be with us for some time, so it is a good bet that it will be the last one. This page lists when Microsoft will support Silverlight until, and you will see that for releases 1 through 4 it was between two & three years. When you ask Microsoft, “Microsoft WTF is going on with Silverlight 5? Is it the last version of Silverlight? Will you support more versions?”, you get given a link to the Silverlight Product Support Lifecycle Page (this has happened more than once to me).
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