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Microsoft Silverlight vs. NancyFX / Nancy

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Silverlight
Score 3.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Silverlight is a development tool.N/A
Nancy
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
NancyFX, or just Nancy, is presented as a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. Nancy is free and open source under an MIT license, and supported by developers at JetBrains.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft SilverlightNancyFX / Nancy
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft SilverlightNancy
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Microsoft SilverlightNancyFX / Nancy
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Silverlight
Kiel Knisely | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kiel Knisely
Software Engineer
Chose Microsoft Silverlight
We picked silverlight 10 years ago because html 5 wasn't feature rich yet. We thought Microsoft was going to support for longer. Unfortunately html 5 became feature rich and silverlight got deprecated. At the time it provided features a normal browser could not
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight allows more adaptability and it integrates well with our products across the company. Adobe Flash crashes or doesn't work with our shipping campus.
Chose Microsoft Silverlight
There's no need to connect asp.net with JavaScript to get what they both can give us. Without Silverlight we always needed to merge sync and async technologies in order to achieve a nice and responsive GUI in web applications. We can only hope that Microsoft will go back to …
Nancy

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User Ratings
Microsoft SilverlightNancyFX / Nancy
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
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User Testimonials
Microsoft SilverlightNancyFX / Nancy
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it for almost all kinds of applications. It's not important if the app is small or big. It's good for DB connections, SOA architecture, office files transformations. The good thing is that it's client side, so we don't have to waste our server resources but can use the client's computer for business and visualization layer.
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Pros
  • Reliable
  • Dependable
  • Innovative
  • Creative
Zubair Ahmed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Zubair Ahmed
Resident Physician
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Cons
  • No support for the popular H.264 video codec
  • Another effort to promote proprietary technology rather than open standards
  • Silverlight is a browser-only solution
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Silverlight allows more adaptability and it integrates well with our products across the company. Adobe Flash crashes or doesn't work with our shipping campus.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Negative that the application is no longer supported
  • Impact to delivery of new features
  • Customer dissatisfaction
Kiel Knisely | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kiel Knisely
Software Engineer
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