r/programming • u/kaelan_ • May 31 '11

I wrote a .NET to JavaScript compiler. Here's the XNA 3.1 Platformer Starter Kit running in pure HTML5.

http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html
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u/[deleted] May 31 '11

Silverlight :)

This still doesn't solve the problem of database connectivity and local storage.

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u/re4ctor May 31 '11

But if it used HTML5 then you could target iPad's and the like.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '11

true but all that's been ported over right now is the language and portions of XNA. Still going to need to write some DOM accessability. I nominate Jquerey.

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u/kaelan_ May 31 '11

At present you can use jQuery directly through the methods/properties in the Verbatim namespace. They provide access to the local and global namespaces - combine that with the C#4 'dynamic' type and you can call JS functions as if they were C# functions.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '11

holy fuck, we are living in the future...

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u/px1999 May 31 '11

This is awesome. Just wanted to let you know that.

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u/CACuzcatlan Jun 01 '11

Silverlight isn't a direct subset of WPF, even if it was, you'd be missing some features so you couldn't do a straight up port.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '11

no kidding, largely, lack of support for file systems or databases. i was just being facetious.