Silverlight

Silverlight represents an application framework that allows the development of rich internet client applications. It is build on top of a lightweight version of the .NET framework.

Advantages

• Support for all .NET languages
• Small redistributable size
• Common programming model with the .NET Framework

Disadvantages

• The plugin is not as widespread as Flash
• It might be difficult to integrate with more complex HTML pages

Components

• Base Class Library
• Dynamic Language Runtime
• CLR Execution Engine
• Presentation Core

Development tools

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
• Silverlight Toolkit
• Microsoft Expression Blend

Versions

• Silverlight 1.0
• Silverlight 2.0
• Silverlight 3.0
• Silverlight 4.0
• Silverlight 5.0