Silverlight For Rich Internet Application Development

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In the arena of rich internet application development, developers from all over the technical world use various systems as there are multiple companies provide a variety of tools. Microsoft is one of the most recognized companies in field of web development technologies, for the development of Rich internet applications (RIA) for web presentations “Silverlight” is one of its reliable Web Browser Plugins which enables all the features which characterize rich internet applications.

For the development of rich internet application development, developers can use the Silverlight in various ways. Developers can use Silverlight markup for creating media & graphics and can manipulate them with dynamic programming languages & managed codes. For bringing up professional look in the applications, developers can use various professional quality tools, for instance coding can be done by using visual studio and for layout & graphic design they can use Microsoft Expression blend. There are wide range of features of Silverlight, which ...
... enables the developers to develop the rich internet applications in very simple ways & make them attractive such as it is a cross border & cross-platform technology, which can run in all popular browsers, it provides consistency no matter which browser it is using, easy installation, audio-video, allow users for easy manipulation to drag- turn & zoom directly in browser and it reads the data & implement the changes without refreshing the page.

Two main versions of Silverlight 1.0 & 2 provide wide range of features for the attractive application development. Applications developed by using version1.0 starts by calling up the Silverlight control from the HTML page and loads up a XAML file containing a special object called “canvas object” which further act as placeholder for other items. Geometrical primitives like lines, ellipses & various other shapes to elements of RIA like texts, images, and media are also provided by the Silverlight. Element positioning for creation of desired layout, event triggers for converting the elements into animations, creation of arbitrary shapes and many more features are offered by Silverlight 1.0. Version Silverlight 2 brings more interactivity & support for .NET languages and various development tools for developing the Rich internet Applications. .NET framework provides developers more enhanced RIA application on web with unmatched data access capabilities, higher input-output (IO) performance, better threading and local data catching & local data storage.

Initially Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 was introduced in April 2007 and its second Version 2.0, released October 2008, this enables all the features like audio-video playback, animations & vector graphics. According to Wikipedia.com at the IBC2008 show in Amsterdam (September 12-16, 2008) Microsoft has announced its next major release of Silverlight with feature support for H.264 video and AAC audio decoding as well as it will also support 3D hardware acceleration..