Foreword
The technologies powering the web are a heterogeneous mix of features and initiatives, some driven by standards bodies, others by companies and individuals. In the richest traditions of the web, Silverlight is an example of innovation happening at the periphery because the status quo wasn’t good enough. It complements the existing web nicely, be it with skills or code or tools or infrastructure or interoperability, while also bringing many new tricks to deliver functionality that simply wasn’t possible before it.
Silverlight is a seminal technology from Microsoft. It comes from an incredible team of people that conceived it to deliver rich media and application experiences over the internet using .NET based applications. It was built ...
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