Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 3 was released July 9, 2009
Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications with emphasis on multimedia, animations, and graphics, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for most web browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools.
- Tooling
- Controls
- DataForm
- DataPager
- Navigation (SEO, deep linking)
- New Toolkit Controls
- Media Graphics
- 3D Pixel Effects
- Animation Easing
- Bitmap API
- GPU Acceleration
- Text/Image Improvements
- Element-to-Element Binding
- LocalConnection API
- Binding Validation UI
- SaveFileDialog
- Dynamic Styling and BasedOn
- CaretBrush
- Merged ResourceDictionary
- Assembly Caching N
- Network monitoring API
- Out-of-browser and Offline
- .NET RIA Services
- Binary XML
- Web Service Utility
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