Introducing Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for building rich Internet applications, which offers the best from WPF and ASP.NET. Basically Silverlight is a plug-in for web browsers that needs to be installed on the client side to run new generation web applications, and its size is about 4 megabytes. By installing Silverlight you allow your web browser to run cool applications where data access, multimedia, and rich contents can be linked together. As you see later in this chapter, developing Silverlight applications can be easier to you if you are already familiar with WPF; Silverlight can be considered as a WPF subset for the web, meaning that you can create the user interface ...
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