About SilverLight

Monday, August 17, 2009

Overview of Silver Light
- Silver Light is plug-in software for Internet based Graphical application.
- Its cross- browser plug-in and similar to FLASH program.
- Silver Light uses XAML, HTML, JavaScript to create animation, vector graphics for making application more interactive.
- Using Silver Light we can play windows media file also and its deployment package is less than 2 MB.
- We can use Silver Light XMAL into the WPF application also.
- Silver Light is platform independent and we don’t require .NET framework also.

Following are the Silver Light Features
- Silver Light is platform independent and it can run on IE 6 and above, Firefox and Safari browser. It doesn’t support on Linux platform currently.
- The setup package is very lightweight and it is less than 2 MB size.
- Silver Light supports the 2D drawing and animation.
- Silver Light supports to play WMA, WMV files also.
- We can call ASP.NET web service or WCF service through the Silver Light application.

For more detailed information please visit following sites
- http://www.silverlight.net
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight