Hi Viv
Thye fact that Silverlight (I must confess I know very little about Silverlight) will run on an Apple Mac....I wonder does this necessarily mean it will also run on an IPAD. Does the Mac and IPAD run the same OS ?
Regards,
Gerard



>>Hi.
>>We have been asked to develop a Front End Sale Person type app for an IPAD, and I have no idea whats involved here.
>>Just wondering if anybody here has done any development on IPOD/IPAD and how different/Easier.mire dificult is it than VFP or Dor Net.. The data will need to find its way back into a VFP app also
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>>Any comments would be appreciated
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>You *could* consider SilverLight which is .NET based but will run on a Mac - and maybe look at the LightSwitch beta to simplify development (I confess that I haven't looked at the latter so I've no idea how it really works).
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>I see elsewhere in the thread that the application must run whilst disconnected but Silverlight OOB should be OK there - written properly the app can easily detect whether it is connected or not and handle data accordingly....
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>This approach could also circumvent the Mac v MS hardware/software argument since you won't be tied to one or the other....
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>Plus you get automatic online installation/update, plus....
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>(I'll let someone else iterate the negatives :-}