Silverlight is a browser plug-in that that extends the web development experience far beyond the limitations of plain HTML and JavaScript. Being a Microsoft product, you might expect it to work best (or only) on Windows and Internet Explorer. So you may be pleasantly surprised to know that it works equally well on Windows and on the Mac, and it also works equally well on the Firefox and Safari web browsers. Since Silverlight is a client side technology, it doesn’t matter what backend server software or platform you’re running – even Apache/Linux will do just fine.
Features of Silverlight:
- Incorporates Windows Presentation Foundation Core
- Contains CLR (Common Language Runtime) and most important base classes from the .NET Framework
- Supports programming in C#, VB, JScript, Ruby, Python
- Embeds Communication Framework including WCF (Windows Communication Framework)
Comes with Data Framework including LINQ