It is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. It is a new cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .Net Framework for building and developing the next generation of media experiences and Rich Interactive Application for the web users to provide a dynamic experience by using all stuffs like animation, audio, video etc. It runs in all popular/modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome running on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS. The very small plug-in requires to run Silverlight and it is freely available on internet.

Silverlight is combination of different technologies into a single development platform that allows us to select tools and the programming language to use in development. Silverlight can also be integrated into existing ASP.NET, JavaScript or AJAX code to complete the functionality.

The main aim of Silverlight is to compete with Adobe product ‘Flash’ and the presentation components of AJAX. Website designers and developers alike can find much to be excited about in Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash.

At very first time Silverlight was called by very bored name ‘WPF/E’ (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). After the MIX (MIX is a Microsoft conference held annually for web developers and designers at which Microsoft showcases upcoming web technologies) conference in March 2007, a new name ‘Silverlight’ introduced.

The main advantage of Microsoft’s platform, developer’s has option to choose his development language. The same in Silverlight, developer can chose either VB.NET or C#.NET to develop Silverlight based apps.

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