E. What Is Silverlight?

The Web has evolved in such a way that users expect more than ever, and user experience has become the focal point of success or failure for most any Website or Web application. With the exit of static HTML pages, and the prevalence and evolution of technologies such as the Adobe Flash platform and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the bar has been raised for how an application looks, feels, functions, and responds.

The birth of Rich Internet Applications heralds in an era where web applications and websites function more like desktop applications, and information is no longer a page refresh away, but is presented seamlessly while preserving the state and appearance of the interface. The purpose of RIAs is to integrate ...

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