| Author: Sabu C Alex 07 Aug 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 6 |
What is Silverlight?
Silverlight is a new cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and Rich Interactive Applications(RIA) for the web. It runs in all popular browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera. The plugin required to run Silverlight is very small in size hence gets installed very quickly.
It is combination of different technolgoies into a single development platform that allows you to select tools and the programming language you want to use. Silverlight integrates seamlessly with your existing Javascript and ASP.NET AJAX code to complement functionality which you have already created.
Silverlight aims to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. It also competes with Sun Microsystems' JavaFX, which was launched a few days after Silverlight.
for more details see this link
http://faq.programmerworld.net/programming/silverlight.html
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| Author: chandramohan 07 Aug 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 6 |
what is Silverlight?
At its simplest, Silverlight is a plug-in that renders XAML-based user interfaces within a browser. Specifically, it supports modern incarnations of Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 1.5+ & 2 and Safari 2 on the latest Windows (XP, Server 2003 and Vista) and Mac OS X platforms. Freely downloadable from Microsoft, the plug-in weighs in at a few megabytes, but it does contain some neat features, including the ability to update itself automatically and, more importantly, support for playing different media formats (VC-1, WMA and MP3) without requiring either the .NET Framework or Windows Media Player to be present on the client.
There is, however, much more to Silverlight than just a simple browser plug-in for playing some media files. For example, Microsoft is currently working on a new service, snappily entitled “Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live”, which provides an online home for Silverlight applications and their corresponding media content for those who don’t want to set up their own media-streaming facilities
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| Author: shareef 24 Sep 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 6 |
Microsoft Silverlight
It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
http://silverlight.net/learn/videocat.aspx?cat=2#HDI2Basics
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. By using Silverlight's support for .NET, High Definition video, cost-effective advanced streaming, unparalleled high-resolution interactivity with Deep Zoom technology, and controls, businesses can reach out to new markets across the Web, desktop, and devices.
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