Why silverlight

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Why silver light is introduced even WPF is already exist in .net?? What we can achieve with silver light where we can't with WPF??

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/944608/wpf-vs-silverlight — Gishu, Apr 19 '10 at 05:21
To oversimplify silverlight is a stripped down runtime environment for rich internet applications - whereas WPF targets the rich desktop client space, with all the bells-n-whistles. Google has a lot of stuff on this topic.. — Gishu, Apr 19 '10 at 05:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '10 at 05:15

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We can run it on MacOS, and in some cases on linux (moonlight project)

answered Apr 19 '10 at 05:15

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '10 at 06:01

Silverlight needs a much smaller .net runtime to run. WPF needs full .net runtime installed in your machine. From a web application it is easy for Silverlight to penetrate a huge percentage of userbase. Also Silverligt supports Windows and Mac out of box and some limited support for Linux through Moonlight.

Why silverlight

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