Microsoft Silverlight – Best-in-class Framework For Building Web Apps

By Author: John Mackmohan
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The idea of animation was born out of different reasons like to provide state-of-the-art entertainment and to aid scientists perform complex laboratory experiments. Today, animations, graphics etc are integral part of almost each real or virtual visual medium. In virtual world, interactive Rich Internet Applications are getting increasingly popular. New technologies keep coming up to enhance the quality of such RIAs and other web applications.

It is also a result of research and development work in the area of frameworks that add value to graphics and animations and helps in create brilliant RIAs. Similar to Adobe Flash, Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications. It provides a retained mode graphics system which is quite similar to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It offers inter-gradations of multimedia, animations, graphics, and interactivity into a single run-time environment. Being a service oriented application; it offers built-in support for sockets and cross-domain support for applications which creates really very interesting possibilities for various ...
... RIA.

When Rich Internet Applications span all kinds of software deployment models, its development aspects has to be analyzed very seriously. The application's design and usage environment, the user's expectations and behavior and the application's behavior when used are the major factors affecting the success of application. Responsiveness, clarity and utility of application should be planned wisely at the time of preparing context. Most importantly, the selection of correct technology plays a vital role in successful development. Silverlight can be a good choice for desired result.

Like many other technologies, it also uses a lightweight browser plugin to increase the power and abilities of regular web pages written in HTML, and to demonstrate RIA. So users may need to install a single element to view all the Silverlight content. But once the plug-in is installed, the browser can present any content without prompting anymore. Anyway, Silverlight plugin is just a 1MB download and it is supported in windows XP and above. So overall there is no more hassle, especially when the modern devices are extremely adaptive.

During this cutting edge of technology era, from communicating with friends to buying the households and from sending simple mails to handling huge businesses, internet is an essential part of life. It is considered as a premium technology that has been developed after deep thought process of maximizing the high quality user experience. Development companies can make the best out its qualities.