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What is silver light ?

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.

Competes with : Adobe Flash , JavaFX , and also presentation components of Ajax

Versions

Silverlight 1.0

Silverlight 2.0 ( previously version 1.1).

What is the impact of silverLight after release ?

Highest Quality Video Experience

Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser

Developers and Graphic Designers can play together!

Cheaper

Support for 3rd Party Languages

Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser Remote Debugging

The best development environment on the planet

Silverlight offers copy protection

Extreme Speed

Getting startedRuntime :

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 : The runtime required to view Silverlight applications created with .NET Microsoft.

Developer Tools :

Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0 : The next generation development tool. Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 : The add-on to create Silverlight applications with Visual

Studio 2008. This install will also install the Silverlight Developer Runtime and the Silverlight SDK. This add-on works with all versions of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, including Visual Web Developer.

Designer Tools :

Download the Expression designer tools to start designing Silverlight application. Expression Blend 2.5

The latest offering from Microsoft to create Silverlight content is Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview.

Software Development Kit:

Microsoft Silverlight Software Development Kit: Download this SDK to create Silverlight Web experiences that target Silverlight 2.0. The SDK contains documentation, tools, Silverlight ASP.NET controls and the libraries needed to build Silverlight applications.

Eclipse Tools for Silverlight :

An Open Source, feature-rich and professional RIA application development environment for Microsoft Silverlight in Eclipse.

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