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  • 0 comments  /  posted by  Silverlight Show  on  Mar 01, 2010 (6 months ago)
    Peter Bromberg talks about synchronous web requests and Silverlight.

    Before I start, I just want to mention that this is a very old "flame war". On the official Silverlight Forums, there was a thread that went on and on, becoming quite ugly with various ad-hominem attacks, and it eventually got so ugly that --thankfully -- the moderators took the whole thread down. However, not being averse to controversy, I of course had my say there and was duly accused by various characters of being arrogant, an idiot, and what not. My position then was exactly as it remains now; basically, Microsoft is not going to give you native synchronous web requests in Silverlight because there is too much room for abuse by developers who will freeze the UI Thread, the browser then locks up, and of course Microsoft gets blamed for a "crappy product".




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