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

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