CCR for Silverlight?

Question

Hi!

I want to port a software that is using the CCR to silverlight and was therefore wondering if there is a chance of it being already available for Silverlight, or becoming availiable in the near future? The only information I found concerning this topic was a thread from 2008 here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/roboticsccr/thread/66d4e167-cf39-49c9-9da6-af76ee3e4d30

In this thread you suggested that it is perhaps possible to retarget the CCR Library to Silverlight - unfortunately this doesn't seem to be possible since Silverlight is completely separated from the Desktop and Compact .Net Framework. Another possibility would probably be to recompile the DLL to Silverlight - but this is not allowed, if I read the license correctly ("You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software[...]").

I think having support for CCR in Silverlight would really be a great thing, as it perfectly suits the async programming style that is needed there! If you are interested in what we are doing with the CCR, take a look here:http://xcoappspace.codeplex.com/

Answer 1

I second the request.  The CCR Library would be very useful (and a perfect fit) for Silverlight.

Answer 2

Yes, we have had this request before. One complication is that Silverlight 4.0 has just been released along with .NET 4.0 and VS2010. It will take a while to evaluate the new version for feasibility.

Trevor

 

Answer 3

What about Silverlight 3, can you release those compiled CCR dlls ?  Any updates on SL 4 ?

 

Thanks.

Answer 4

We are evaluating Silverlight 4, but there are no plans to release for 3 now that 4 is out.

You need to bear in mind that all UI operations in Silverlight have to take place on the UI thread. This complicates things a little. You can certainly run multiple threads, but as soon as you want to do anything that touches the UI you are blocked waiting for that thread.

Trevor

 

Answer 5

Trevor, I could really use this on Silverlight 4.0 - it will just make so many things I do building trading applications so much simpler.  Any chance of being able to get access to those assemblies or to assist in a port?

Answer 6

Trevor, I too would like to add a vote for Silverlight 4 support as a priority.

Answer 7

Yes, we have had this request before. One complication is that Silverlight 4.0 has just been released along with .NET 4.0 and VS2010. It will take a while to evaluate the new version for feasibility.

Trevor

 

Are there any updates CCR with .NET/Silverlight 4.0 Trevor ?

Answer 8

I would love to know more about this too Trevor. I've been following the CCR&DSS for a couple of years but it seems there isn't much progress on this project. There was an unoffical note that Microsoft internally has a version for Silverlight but it never got released. That's a shame. A lot of people have been waiting for that to be released to public and it would certainly increase acceptance of this great library in many industries.

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MCAD

Answer 9

Yes, you are correct! And I am pushing to get the Silverlight 4.0 CCR DLL released. It's the release procedures that are the hold-up, and I am actually out of the country on leave right now.

So even though I can't give you a Christmas present, you should expect to see something in January. I will make an announcement when it is available.

BTW, in the limited testing that we have done this works with WP7 as well.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Trevor