It's all about Microsoft Silverlight.
Silverlight is not the same as WPF.
Microsoft Silverlight related software.
The Official site of Microsoft Silverlight.
Internet Browser/ Internet Explorer Silverlight.
Official page: Microsoft Silverlight.
Microsoft Silverlight has to be installed.
This weekend Silverlight 5 was released.
Silverlight 5 now takes care of that for you.
Silverlight is web-specific, and only has a subset of WPF's features.
Learn how to create and deploy web resources, including JavaScript, Silverlight, and jQuery.
Microsoft Silverlight- a software platform to expand the possibilities of the popular browsers.
Java and also Microsoft Silverlight( which is installed by default in all the computers)
are sometimes necessary.
NET Framework(out of 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or. NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on.
Microsoft Silverlight allows you to design the projects in which the interactive
and multimedia applications are combined.
The disadvantage is that you cant leverage things
like databinding(which is really powerfull in frameworks like WPF and Silverlight).
The WMV installer is bundled with Microsoft Silverlight by default, installation without Silverlight can be accomplished with
a"Custom" install.
Flip4Mac 3.0 includes an option to install Microsoft Silverlight which is Microsoft's answer to Adobe Air,
although you don't have to install it.
Due to the way Microsoft Silverlight is released it does not take
a Lifecycle typical of many Microsoft products and, for clarification purposes, is defined as a tool.
Visual Studio 2008 requires. NET 3.5 Framework and by default configures compiled assemblies to run on. NET Framework 3.5, but it also supports multi-targeting which lets the developers choose which version of the. NET Framework(out of 2.0, 3.0,
3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or. NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on.
You may need a new browser plugin for some things- for example,
you need Microsoft's Silverlight plugin to play videos on Netflix-
but if you're on a less-reputable website that wants you to download and run an EXE file so you can play their videos, there's a good chance they're trying to infect your computer with malicious software.