IdeaBlade Silverlight Overview

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Silverlight (formerly known as WPF/E or Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere) is a cross-platform browser plug-in being developed by Microsoft that is designed to provide a richer internet experience for enterprise and consumer applications. Silverlight 1.0 has been called a ?Flash killer? in that it will provide enhanced animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities. Although these features are interesting for improving the multimedia experience on the web, the real potential for Silverlight lies in the feature set to be released with version 1.1.

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Silverlight 1.1 will contain a substantial subset of the .NET 3.5 runtime (also running cross-browser and cross-platform) and will enable a new generation of smart/rich internet applications. Silverlight 1.1 has the potential to become an ASP.NET or even an HTML application killer, especially where sophisticated, feature-rich applications are involved. Silverlight will essentially host a full .NET runtime engine within a sandbox on the client computer and allow a .NET smart client application to run on any platform, all with the same deployment characteristics as a thin-client application (once the Silverlight plug-in has been installed). Essentially, Silverlight creates a ?best of both worlds? environment, in which users can experience responsive, media-rich internet applications that leverage local computing power and resources, while administrators enjoy the benefits of ?notouch ? deployments and centralized control.
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