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Fundamentally, Silverlight is Microsoft's competitive answer to. I had to set up Silverlight for Netflix and I work with Firefox on my Mac so far so. Jun 30, 2010 What is Microsoft Silverlight and why do I need it? Can someone explain the benefits of MS Silverlight (both Pros and Cons)? Sorry to ask and I might be able to figure it out if I had time to open it up and see exactly each feature does, but just from opening the program up for the first time; I'm not sure that I need it or what it is for exactly?
'Silverlight' redirects here. For other uses, see.Microsoft SilverlightInitial releaseSeptember 5, 2007; 12 years ago ( 2007-09-05)5.1.50918.0 (January 15, 2019; 13 months ago ( 2019-01-15))None, andand, andWebsiteMicrosoft Silverlight (or simply Silverlight) is a deprecated application framework for writing and running, similar to. A plugin for Silverlight is still available for some browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on, later versions supported, and animation and gave support to developers for. Silverlight was also one of the two application development platforms for, but web pages using Silverlight did not run on the Windows Phone or versions of, as there was no Silverlight plugin for Internet Explorer on those platforms. Contents.History Introduction From the initial launch in 2007, reviewers compared the product to Adobe's Flash.
Adoption According to statowl.com, Microsoft Silverlight had a penetration of 64.2% in May 2011. Usage on July 2010 was 53.6%, whereas as of May 2011 market leader Adobe Flash was installed on 95.3% of browsers, and Java was supported on 76.5% of browsers. Support of these plugins is not mutually exclusive; one system can support all three. Not all Web sites require a browser plugin.Silverlight was used to provide video streaming for the coverage of the in Beijing, the in Vancouver, and the 2008 conventions for both major United States political parties. Silverlight was also used by and for their instant video streaming services, but Netflix said in its Tech Blog in 2013 that, since Microsoft had announced Silverlight's, they would be moving to. Demise Industry observers had announced the death of Silverlight as early as 2011. Internally, even proponents of the technology thought as a concept was a bad idea from the start.In 2012, Microsoft deprecated Silverlight for in, but as late as the beginning of 2015 it was not clear what Microsoft's official position was on the future of Silverlight as a technology.In July of 2015 a Microsoft blog post finally clarified matters: '.we encourage companies that are using Silverlight for media to begin the transition to DASH/MSE/CENC/EME based designs'.
Microsoft plans to terminate Silverlight support on October 12, 2021. Support for IE7–8 was removed between 2014 and 2016, depending on the. Support for IE9–11 will last until late 2021, depending on the OS, 'or though sic the support lifecycle of the underlying browsers, whichever is shorter.' There is no Silverlight plugin available for. It has not been supported by since September 2015 or by since March 2017.As of February 2020, fewer than 0.04% of sites used Silverlight, 2.7% used Adobe Flash, and 3.4% used Java. Overview Silverlight provides a graphics system similar to (WPF), and integrates, animations, and into a single run-time environment. In Silverlight applications, user interfaces are declared in (XAML) and programmed using a subset of the.
XAML can be used for the and animations. Silverlight can also be used to create for.Silverlight supports video, (WMV), (WMA), and (MP3) media content across all supported browsers without requiring, the control, or browser plug-ins. Because is an implementation of the (SMPTE) standard, Silverlight also supports VC-1 video. According to the VC-1 and H.264 are only licensed for the 'personal and non-commercial use of a consumer'. Silverlight makes it possible to dynamically load (XML) content that can be manipulated through a (DOM) interface, a technique that is consistent with conventional techniques. Silverlight exposes a Downloader object which can be used to download content, like scripts, media assets, or other data, as may be required by the application.
With version 2, the programming logic can be written in any, including some nuclear evolution of common like and.A implementation (now abandoned) named, developed by in cooperation with Microsoft, was released to bring Silverlight version 1 and 2 functionality to, and other open source platforms, although some Linux distributions did not include it, citing redistribution and concerns. However, in May 2012, Moonlight was abandoned because of its lack of popularity. Supported platforms Over the course of about five years released five versions with varying platform support: The first version was released in 2007, and the fifth (and final) major version on May 8, 2012. It is compatible with later versions of Internet Explorer web browser on Microsoft Windows (except ), with on Apple, and with mobile devices using the and (Series 60) platforms.Cross-platform Mozilla Firefox support for Silverlight was removed in Firefox 52 released in March 2017 when Mozilla removed support for NPAPI plugins, bringing it in-line with the removal of NPAPI plugin support in Google Chrome. Desktop computers Silverlight requires an processor with (SSE) support.
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See also:Silverlight applications could be written in any.NET programming language. As such, any which can be used with.NET languages can work with Silverlight, provided they can target the Silverlight CoreCLR for hosting the application, instead of the.NET Framework CLR. Microsoft has positioned as a companion tool to Visual Studio for the design of Silverlight User Interface applications. Can be used to develop and debug Silverlight applications. To create Silverlight projects and let the compiler target CoreCLR, Visual Studio requires the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio.A Silverlight control is a ZIP format file with extension.XAP containing a list of one or more.NET managed assemblies (.DLL files) along with the AppManifest.XAML file containing this list along with the entry point (class and assembly). It can be hosted in any HTML file using an object tag, for example. A Silverlight project contains the Silverlight.js and CreateSilverlight.js files which initializes the Silverlight plug-in for use in HTML pages, a XAML file for the UI, and code-behind files for the application code.
Silverlight applications are debugged in a manner similar to ASP.NET applications. Visual Studio's CLR Remote Cross Platform Debugging feature can be used to debug Silverlight applications running on a different platform as well.In conjunction with the release of Silverlight 2, was added as a development tool option. Licensing An April 2007 report suggested that Microsoft intended to release certain parts of Silverlight source code as software, but a week later Sam Ramji, director of platform technology strategy at Microsoft, contradicted the rumors by confirming that the company had no plans to open Silverlight. Some controls that ship with Silverlight are available under the as a part of a separate project known as the Silverlight Toolkit.Silverlight's nature is a concern to competition since it may harm the open nature of the.
Advocates of are also concerned Silverlight could be another example of Microsoft's strategy. Both Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash are proprietary. Flash's file formats are publicly documented standards, as are Silverlight's.
Silverlight, like other web technologies, uses audio and video.Mono Moonlight implementation. Main article:The Team abandoned development of, a and implementation of both the Silverlight 1 and 2. Development was discontinued in 2012 due to the poor acceptance of Silverlight and the restrictions imposed by.The project had been officially supported by Microsoft which, under an agreement with, made not-publicly-available additional specifications, access to the Silverlight APIs, binary codecs and test cases available to the Mono team.The ' under which Novell was granted this exclusive access also specified conditions incompatible with the that covers most. As examples, it specifically required that the software must have been 'obtained directly from Novell or through an Intermediate Recipient' and that it must be 'not licensed under or a Similar License'.
Some free software proponents criticized the covenant.Silverlight was criticised for not living up to its cross-platform compatibility promises, especially on Linux systems, compared to its extensive support on Apple and Microsoft desktops for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. Although Microsoft was officially collaborating on the Moonlight project, CEO of, which sells the competing proprietary Flash platform, questioned 'the commitment of Microsoft to keep the Silverlight platform compatible with other OS besides '. His concerns are based on 'examples from history' where he said that Microsoft had launched products with promises of ongoing cross-platform compatibility that no longer apply, for example and.Relationship to existing web standards In 2007, California and several other U.S.
States asked a district judge to extend most of Microsoft's settlement for another five years, citing 'a number of concerns, including the fear that Microsoft could use the to 'tilt the playing field' toward Silverlight, its new competitor,' says a article. The final judgment on the motion extended the settlement two years, to November 2009, but for reasons unrelated to Silverlight. Version history. Main article:. Silverlight 1 – Silverlight 1, developed under the codename Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E ) was released in 2007. It consisted of the core presentation framework, which is responsible for the (UI), interactivity and user input, basic UI controls, graphics and animation, media playback, (DRM), and integration. Silverlight 2 – Included a version of the and implemented the same full (CLR) version as.NET Framework 3.0, so it can execute programs written in any.NET language.
Silverlight 3 – Silverlight 3 was announced on September 12, 2008, and unveiled at in on March 18, 2009. A beta version was made available for download the same day. The final version was released July 9, 2009. Silverlight 3 included more controls —including DataGrid, TreeView, various layout panels, DataForm for forms-driven applications and DataPager for viewing paginated data. Silverlight 4 – On November 18, 2009, at the in Los Angeles, Microsoft Corporation unveiled a version of Silverlight 4.
The final version was released on April 15, 2010 (along with ). New features in Silverlight 4 include: support for browser, webcam and microphone, printing, more mouse support, new notification support to send messages to users, new and enhanced controls (e.g., RichTextBox, DataGrid), theming of controls, rendering HTML, better localization, etc. Silverlight 5 – The final version was made available to download on December 9, 2011. New features included GPU-accelerated video decoding, 3D graphics, playback speed controls, remote control, and 64-bit support.See also.References.
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Moonlight is safe from threat only if you get it from Novell AND DO NOT PASS IT ON, as there are no protections for downstream recipients.Unless those downstream recipients get it from an 'Intermediate Recipient' defined to only include authorized resellers.It's like walking into a store and saying 'I'm only going to pay half of the amount I owe and I hereby disclaim my duty to pay full price.' You can try that, but the law supersedes whatever intent or desire you've expressed.
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– step by step in Silverlight 5, lots of demos and samples available.
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