Silverlight is a Microsoft technology that allows developers to create rich internet applications for web browsers. It uses .NET and XAML to provide animation, media playback, and a Windows Presentation Foundation-like user interface. Silverlight applications can access web services and have access to features like graphics, audio/video, and a consistent experience across browsers and platforms.

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3. What is Silverlight ?

4. What is Silverlight ?
Microsoft Silverlight is a 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. Silverlight unifies the
capabilities of the server, the Web, and the desktop, of managed
code and dynamic languages, of declarative and traditional
programming, and the power of Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF).

5. State-of-The-Art Application

6. Features:
Silverlight enables you to create a state-of-the-art application
that has the following features:
• It is a cross-browser, cross-platform technology. It runs in all popular
Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,
and Apple Safari, and on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.
• It is supported by a very small download that installs in seconds.
• It streams video and audio. It scales video quality to everything from
mobile devices to desktop browsers to 720p HDTV video modes.
• It includes compelling graphics that users can manipulate—drag, turn,
zoom—directly in the browser.
• It reads data and updates the display, but it doesn't interrupt the user by
refreshing the whole page.
• It provides a consistent experience no matter where it runs.

7. What Features Are in Silverlight?

8. Extended Features
WPF and XAML:
Silverlight includes Windows Presentation
Foundation (WPF) technology, which greatly extends the
elements in the browser for creating UI. WPF lets you create
immersive graphics, animation, media, and other rich client
features, extending browser-based UI beyond what is available
with HTML alone. Extensible Application Markup Language
(XAML) provides a declarative markup syntax for creating WPF
Elements.

9. Extended Features
Extensions to JavaScript:
Silverlight provides extensions to the
universal browser scripting language that provide powerful
control over the browser UI, including the ability to work with
WPF elements.

10. Extended Features
Cross-browser, cross-platform support:
Silverlight runs the same on all popular
browsers (on any platform). You can design and develop your
application without having to worry about which browser or
platform your users have.

11. Extended Features
Integration with existing applications:
Silverlight integrates seamlessly
with your existing JavaScript and ASP.NET AJAX code to
complement functionality you have already created.

12. Extended Features
Access to the .NET Framework programming model and to
associated tools:
You can create Silverlight-based
applications using dynamic languages such as managed Jscript
and IronPython as well as languages such as C# and Visual
Basic. You can use development tools such as Visual Studio to
create Silverlight-based applications.

13. Extended Features
LINQ:
Silverlight includes language-integrated query (LINQ),
which enables you to program data access using intuitive native
syntax and strongly typed objects in .NET Framework
languages.

14. Silverlight Architecture

15. The Silverlight 1.0 architecture

16. Silverlight Detail Architecture
Framework
Browser Host Data WPF Networking MS AJAX
LINQ XLINQ Extensible Controls Library
REST POX
Integrated
DLR BCL HTML DOM
Networking
RSS JSON Integration
Stack Ruby Python Generics Collections
CLR Execution Engine
Application
Services
XAML Legend
UI Core Inputs DRM V1.1
Keyboard Mouse Ink Media Legend
Vector Text
Installer Media V1.0
Controls
Animation Images
VC1 WMA MP3 Layout Editing

17. Silverlight End-to-End Architecture
Better Platform Flexible Environment Security
for all type of applications for programming and media Data, server, Transfer
Web Desktop
XHTML / ASP.NET .NET
JavaScript / AJAX XAML / WPF
CSS Windows Media
Media & RIA

18. Deployment and Packaging
Content for a Web page that contains Silverlight elements can
be created by using the following tactics:
• Inline XAML and JavaScript.
• External XAML files and
JavaScript files.
• Compressed content package
that contains XAML, managed
code, images, fonts, and
media. Streaming media
sources can be referenced
from the XAML media
elements.

19. Silverlight Tools

20. Silverlight Tools

21. Supported Platforms & Versions

22. Supported Platforms
Microsoft Windows Macintosh
Silverlight supports the Silverlight supports the
following versions of Microsoft following versions of the Mac
Windows: operating system:
• Microsoft Windows Vista • Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Power PC)
• Microsoft Windows XP • Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based)
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003

23. Versions of Silverlight
Silverlight 1.0 Silverlight 1.1 / 2.0
• Create and manage 2D graphics • All of the functionality included in
and animation Silverlight version 1.0
• Handle mouse, keyboard, and ink • Support for managed code C#, VB,
input Python, Ruby.
• Deliver WMV, WMA, and MP3 • XAML extensibility
media • Control class and sample controls
• Work with JPEG and PNG imaging
• Format and manipulate text
• Communicate with services and
download server resources by using
the HTTP downloader
• Parse Extensible Application Markup
Language (XAML) content and
markup
• Navigate Web content by utilizing
the JavaScript Document Object
Model (DOM)

24. Advantages & Disadvantages

25. Silverlight
Advantages Disadvantages
• Lightweight at 4-6 MB, quick • Sandboxing limits functionality
download • Conflicting products within
• .NET based Microsoft?
• Write in C# or VB.NET
• Use familiar class libraries
• Rich state-of-the-art GUI
• Vector based
• All types of content handled
uniformly
• Secure - sandboxed

26. Resources for Getting Started

27. Resources for Getting Started
• Silverlight 1.0 - Development with JavaScript: Provides information for
developing with Silverlight 1.0, which supports the XAML markup language and
JavaScript for creating applications. Most of the conceptual material contained
in this section (animations, graphics, XAML, and so on) is also useful to
Silverlight 2 developers.
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Development with the .NET Framework: Provides
information for developing with Silverlight 2, which includes .NET Framework
features.
• Silverlight Technical Articles: Provides additional MSDN articles about
Silverlight.
• Silverlight.net is a general Silverlight developer site that provides resources
such as samples, QuickStarts, white papers, instructional videos, forums, and
blogs. In particular, beginners might want to check out the Silverlight.net Quick
Starts.
• Silverlight.net provides all the downloads you need to create Silverlight-based
applications, including developer and designer tools.