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