There is a ton of discussion going on around the announcements at //BUILD/ this week and what the implications are for Silverlight developers and for the future of Silverlight itself. A lot of that speculation has quickly sped to the realm of FUD. As a Silverlight MVP, I for one thing the future is quite bright and shiny for Silverlight developers, and even for Silverlight applications in terms of moving to the new platform and building Metro style applications.

If you have no idea what a "Metro style" application is or what WinRT is, you have lots to read. The short story is that a WinRT application is one built for codename Windows 8, and one that runs with the new user interface style and experience called Metro. Just go check out some of the many videos available now of Windows 8 to get a better sense of what this means. But from a developer perspective, it mean you build a client app to run against the new Windows runtime (WinRT), and it is not a .NET Framework application. There is a lot more to say there, but that is for other posts. What I want to focus on here is what it means at a high level for Silverlight developers.

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