Silverlight is a browser plug-in that promotes a collaborative development environment of rich online media contents that enable developers and designers alike to integrate multimedia and graphics into web pages within the context of the managed environment.
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History of silverlight versions and its features
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Silverlight is a browser plug-in that promotes a collaborative development environment of rich
online media contents that enable developers and designers alike to integrate multimedia and
graphics into web pages within the context of the managed environment.
Top Silverlight features
IIS Smooth Streaming :
It enables you to deliver high definition streams that play very smoothly on any device running
Silverlight.
Pivot viewer :
It helps in easier interaction with massive database on the web in ways that are powerful, fun
and informative.
Sketch flow :
It revolutionizes the speed and accuracy with which you can demonstrate a vision for an
application.
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Top Silverlight features
Deep zoom :
It is the fastest and smoothest zooming technology on the Web.
Pixel shader :
This software based effects include blur and drop shadow that can be applied to any
graphical content for animation.
New controls :
Silverlight is packed with over 60 high-quality and customizable esternal controls such as
charting and media.
Media format extensibility :
With the new Raw AV pipeline, it can easily support a wide variety of third-party codes.
Perspective 3D graphics :
With this the users can rotate or scale live content in space without writing any additional
code.
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Skinning and styling :
It helps to create graphics and then use them to customize controls, such as the look of a
scrollbar.
Silverlight versions :
Silverlight 1.0
This release was originally called WPF/E, an acronym for Windows Presentation Foundation/
Everywhere.
Key features:
Has core presentation framework, which is responsible for UI, interactivity and user input.
Basic UI controls, media playback , graphics and animation and DOM integration
The main drawback of this release is no support for managed code.
Applications are written either in XAML or in a mix of XAML and JavaScript with DOM
(Document Object Model) to manipulate the user interface.
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Silverlight 1.0
It was released in March 2008.
Key features :
Rich base class library: This is a compatible subset of the full .NET Framework. It supports
Reflection, Collections,Regular Expressions, String Handling, Data Access, LINQ etc…
Powerful built-in controls:
Extensible control base classes
Common controls: Textbox, Checkbox, Slider, RadioButton, TabControl, ScrollViewer,
ProgressBar, Calendar etc…
Layout controls: Grid, StackPanel etc…
Data controls: DataGrid, etc…
Advanced skinning and template support: help to easily customize the look and feel of an
application.
Programming Languages: Visual Basic, JavaScript, C#, IronPython and IronRuby.
Cross-platform and cross-browser support: This supports for Mac, Windows, and Linux in
Safari,Firefox, and Windows Internet Explorer.
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Security: Silverlight CoreCLR uses an attribute-based security model, as opposite to the Code
Access Security model of the desktop version of .NET Framework.
Silverlight 3
This was released in July 9, 2009, mainly providing improvements in graphics capabilities,
media management, application development areas , and integration in the designer’s
Expression Blend 3 tools.
Key features :
Support for 3D graphics
Animation
Pixel shaders
Support theme application
Enhance control-skinning
Improve text rendering
Bitmap APIs
Support for new media formats
IIS Media Services
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Silverlight DRM for media streaming
Empowers developers to develop data and media-rich interactive RIAs
Silverlight 3 SDK
New networking APIs
New FormsXAML controls
New DataManipulationXAML controls
New ContentXAML controls
Improvements of other user interface framework
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Silverlight 4.0
This was released on November 18, 2009.
Key features :
Supports GPU accelerated video decoding
Variable speed playback of media content with automatic audio pitch correction
Built-in RC support
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Supports faster application start-up
Automated UI testing that supports for applications with Visual Studio 2010
Developers can now debug data-binding expressions
WCF RIA Services improvements that include complex type support and better MVVM
support.
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