17 Facts About Silverlight

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Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich web applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash.

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Silverlight was used to provide video streaming for the NBC coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and the 2008 conventions for both major United States political parties.

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Silverlight was used by Amazon Video and Netflix for their instant video streaming services, but Netflix said in its Tech Blog in 2013 that, since Microsoft had announced Silverlight's end-of-life, they would be moving to HTML5 video.

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4.

Silverlight provides a retained mode graphics system similar to Windows Presentation Foundation, and integrates multimedia, graphics, animations, and interactivity into a single run-time environment.

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5.

Silverlight can be used to create Windows Sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista.

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Silverlight makes it possible to dynamically load Extensible Markup Language content that can be manipulated through a Document Object Model (DOM) interface, a technique that is consistent with conventional Ajax techniques.

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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.

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Silverlight requires an x86 processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions support.

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9.

Silverlight was not available on Android or iOS, the most prevalent operating systems on the mobile market.

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10.

Silverlight was the primary development environment for Windows Phone and is based on Silverlight 4.

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11.

NET languages can work with Silverlight, provided they can target the Silverlight CoreCLR for hosting the application, instead of the.

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12.

Silverlight applications are debugged in a manner similar to ASP.

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13.

Visual Studio's CLR Remote Cross Platform Debugging feature can be used to debug Silverlight applications running on a different platform as well.

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Some controls that ship with Silverlight are available under the Microsoft Public License as a part of a separate project known as the Silverlight Toolkit.

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15.

Advocates of free software are concerned Silverlight could be another example of Microsoft's embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy.

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Silverlight was criticized for not living up to its cross-platform operating system compatibility promises, especially on Linux systems, compared to its extensive support on Apple and Microsoft desktops for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.

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Silverlight's 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 Internet Explorer for UNIX and Windows Media Player for Mac.

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