Ag stands for “silver”, “light” comes from Flash
By Alexey Gavrilov on April 19, 2007
Ever since Microsoft released its first CTP of WPF/e in December I was wondering what the strange naming convention does it use for binaries and the code — aghost, agcore.dll, agctrl.dll, agcodec.dll and npag.dll. Now, when we know that WPF/e’s official name is Silverlight, it started to make sense.
It would be interesting to know what is the rationale behind using codename WPF/e for several months before announcing Silverlight in April.
People has often been confusing WPF/e with WPF and this might be the point. Use the temporary name to bridge existing and powerful technology (ie WPF) to the new one (Silverlight), which otherwise could be easily left unnoticed.
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