Getting Started with Silverlight

We ran across this article by Dan Wahlin this morning that lays out a nice description of the basics of Silverlight. Worth a read.

What Is Silverlight 1.0?
A lot of people like to compare Silverlight to Adobe’s Flash product. Silverlight is a plug-in, like Flash, that must be installed on an end user’s computer in order to work and can be used in multiple browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Silverlight also works on multiple operating systems, including Windows and Macintosh (a Linux version called Moonlight is also being developed outside of Microsoft). Once installed, Silverlight can be used to provide eye-catching animations, display movies, show ads, provide navigation and play games or music.

Silverlight is based on an XML format called Extensible Application Markup Language, normally referred to as XAML. XAML provides specialized XML tags that can be used to perform a variety of tasks, such as displaying ellipses, rectangles and lines, handling various media formats (.MP3, .WMV, .JPG, etc.), animating objects to create compelling visual effects, transforming objects, interacting with JavaScript and more.

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