Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no major ...

Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by .NET framework and works with most web browsers, devices, and operating systems. It is a useful application that creates engaging, interactive user ...

At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week, the future of Silverlight is one topic that has gotten short shrift. There have been no sessions about Silverlight 5 and only one ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Silverlight 5, the most recent -- and possibly last -- version of Microsoft's cross-platform browser plug-in, is poised to be released to manufacturing (RTM) before the end of November. Several of my ...

Microsoft has come through with Silverlight 5, which was released as a final product today. The release is the latest -- and perhaps the last -- major update to the company's .NET technology for ...

Have you heard of Microsoft Silverlight? It is an all-purpose plug-in designed by Microsoft and launched in 2007. As of now, it will receive its burial in the digital cemetery in October 2021. So, why ...

Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D, ...

The software maker announces Silverlight 2 and new partners. Despite big numbers for the Olympics, though, Silverlight usage still vastly trails that of its dominant rival, Adobe Flash. During her ...

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