Here Alex van Beek discusses printing in both Silverlight 4 and Flex 4.
I’ve wanted to do a “Silverlight vs Flex” series for quite a while now.
Both Silverlight and Flex will reach version 4 during the first quarter
of this year, at least, that’s what the roadmaps say. With both
reaching version 4, this seems like the perfect time to do a comparison
about how to implement certain features. Silverlight has been catching
up with Flex, but in Silverlight 4, there are features in Silverlight
that are just not possible in Flex (COM interop / Drag and Drop from
the desktop), while other features that previously were only possible
in Flex, are now also available in Silverlight 4. Whether the
implementation of these features in Silverlight is as mature as in Flex
is what we are going to find out in this series. We’re going to start
with how printing is implemented on both platforms.