Microsoft Silverlight

MS Networking Compiled by: ShreeRam DK & DayanBasha A

1. What is Silverlight
2. System Requirements
3. Troubleshooting Check list
4. Common Errors and Resolutions














Microsoft Silverlight

MS Networking Compiled by: ShreeRam DK & DayanBasha A


What is Silverlight
Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for the
Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Silverlight is a free plug-in powered by the .NET framework that is
compatible across multiple browsers, devices and operating systems to bring a new level of
interactivity wherever the Web works. With support for advanced data integration, multithreading, HD
video using IIS Smooth Streaming, and built in content protection, Silverlight enables online and
offline applications for a broad range of business and consumer scenarios
Features of Silverlight
Silverlight 4 delivers a full suite of powerful features to application developers, bringing innovative
platform capabilities to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for
developing and deploying modern business applications for both internal and end-user applications on
both sides of the firewall
Enabling business application development. Silverlight 4 affirms its position as the natural choice
for building business applications on the Web
Whats new for application developers
Comprehensive printing support now enables the creation of a virtual print view, enabling applications
to deliver print-friendly documents
A full set of controls with more than 60 customizable, skinnable components makes it easy to build
forms that can be sorted, resized and validated. New controls include RichTextArea with hyperlinks,
images and editing
Localization enhancements with bidirectional text, right-to-left support and complex scripts such as
Arabic, Hebrew and Thai and 30 new languages.
Managed Extensibility Framework supports building completely modular applications, allowing for fast
startup and download, efficient development and testing, as well as agile customization and servicing
Extensive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010:
Fully editable design surface for drawing out controls and layouts
Rich property grid and new editors for values
Drag and drop support for databinding and automatically creating bound controls
Empowering richer experiences. Silverlight 4 introduces additional capabilities that enable
developers to create richer, more appealing, high-performance interactive and innovative media
experiences
Microsoft Silverlight

MS Networking Compiled by: ShreeRam DK & DayanBasha A

System Requirements
The system requirements for Microsoft Silverlight and associated technologies are listed below.
Windows
Operating System: Windows 7,Windows Vista; Windows XP Service
Pack 2
Intel Pentium III 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)
128MB of RAM
Mac OS
Operating System: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or above
Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
128MB of RAM
Linux
For the system requirements, please refer to the Mono Project's
Moonlight Web site.
Note: AMD Athlon Processors are not supported. But later versions of AMD Processors are supported.