Introducing Silverlight 4

Introduction

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for developing the next-generation, media-rich, interactive line-of-business (LoB) rich Internet applications (RIAs) in an agile and cost-effective way.

In only nine months, after releasing Silverlight 3 in July 2009, Microsoft released Silverlight 4 in April 2010. The Silverlight 3 version introduced out-of-browser capabilities to work in the disconnected mode and access to local file systems, and it helped professionals to develop data-driven applications easily. Silverlight 4 introduced support to Windows 7 Mobile phones and highlighted demanded features, such as printing, documents integration, reporting, rich offline capabilities, and local devices ...