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Introduction of SilverLight
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The introduction of Silverlight is given below:

  1. Silverlight is the new Microsoft technology on web platform for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) launched by Microsoft in 2007.
  2. Silverlight supports multiple Operating Systems called cross-platform technology, which includes Windows family of OS, Mac, and Linux with moonlight technology (Moonlight is an open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems).
  3. Silverlight is also supports multiple devices called cross-device technology, which include mobile devices to desktop browsers to 720p HDTV video modes etc..

    Silverlight is a browser plug-in approximately 4MB in size, it is client side free software for easy and fast less than 10 sec one time installation available for any client side browsers .

  4. Silverlight supports the display of high-definition video files, and sending them over the Net
  5. Silverlight applications are delivered to a browser in a text-based markup language called XAML. XAML is a declarative markup language that you can use to define the UI elements for your Silverlight-based application.
  6. Silverlight is considered as a competitor to Adobe's flash technology  of the design goals of the Silverlight technology is to fill the gap between windows application and web application in terms of creating Graphical User Interface (GUI). So far web developers were not able to make client happy in terms of UI, but now web developer will be able to full fill this with the help of Silverlight technology

Platforms Silverlight supports?

  • Mac OS
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP SP2
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Linux (Moonlight)

System requirements for Silverlight

The system requirements for Microsoft Silverlight and associated technologies are listed below.

  • Windows
  • Operating System: Windows 7,Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Intel Pentium III 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)
  • 128MB of RAM
  • Mac OS
  • Operating System: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or above.
  • Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM
  • Linux
  • Moonlight
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