Microsoft Silverlight

Now you can deliver media experiences and rich interactive applications on your website that incorporate video, interactivity, and animation - EASILY! Microsoft offers next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime Silverlight. Silverlight was in the past codenamed “WPF/E.” It’s a basically lightweight subset of XAML use for building rich media experiences on the web.

Features of Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft shares its top list of reasons why you might want to use Silverlight:

• Silverlight supports full-screen 720p video and offers faultless transitions between full-screen and windowed mode without losing any type of your position in the video. It supports playback of “WMV” files on both PC and Macintosh, during payback with lots of option for interactivity with just a pair of lines of code, you can provide a platform- impartial way to handle all your movie files.

• If you want a simple, monolithic solution, or you can keep the two separate to enforce delineation between different web development roles Silverlight provides a familiar web symbol for designers and developers. You can insert XAML directly within an HTML file.

• Seamlessly Silverlight and HTML integrated togetherly. From the Same Client side Java script every XAML element can be accessed or control that would be used to relate with any DHTML element. You can even superimpose HTML elements on top of Silverlight content there are no any types of boundaries or barriers. We’ll also create it very easy for an ASP.NET AJAX developer to insert Silverlight content.

• There are only three steps essential to add animation or media to your RIA application: (i) embrace a standard JavaScript file in your HTML header; (ii) call a function to produce the Silverlight object anywhere on the screen; (iii) insert some XAML content (an animation, some media) for runtime delivery.

• With Silverlight content you have full runtime interactivity. Contain information populated from a database the contents of the XAML file can be completely server-generated.

• Loadtime is no longer an issues as Silverlight is just a 1MB download on a PC and its supports “Windows XP” and above, with “Windows 2000” support to come.

• Silverlight is fast - for instance, you can play lots of videos at the same time without stuttering or dropping. This is going to permit designers incredible power to use media in new ways that have never been available through other existing technologies.

• Silverlight is both client and server disbeliever. There’s no difference between the Macintosh and PC runtimes; now you don’t need any Microsoft software on the server — you can deliver a vast Silverlight experience from an Apache / Linux server to a Mac OS 10.4 client.

• Animation, 2D vector graphics, media, and text — they are all current in Silverlight. Silverlight is almost 100% compatible with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation.) Most of the concepts of WPF carry forward (although Silverlight is a subset — it doesn’t hold up WPF features such as 3D, data binding or templates).

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Silverlight Streaming

Microsoft® Silverlight Streaming by “Window Live” is the most significant service provided to the Search engines optimizers (SEO), web developers and designers due to its usability. Silver applications service is basically provided for FREE and is a convenient solution for streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences rich interactive applications that run on Windows^TM and Mac. It’s combined with the capability to create content and it’s a totally SEO-friendly service which is beneficial for search engine optimizers. For more information about Silverlight streaming click here.