Summary
Microsoft’s answer to users’ demands for ad hoc tools for building rich Internet applications is Silverlight. Silverlight places itself in the same product area as Adobe Flash, but it is not a standalone product. It comes with strong connections to ASP.NET AJAX, WPF, the .NET Framework 3.x, and the Expression suite of products.
Silverlight represents Microsoft’s way of building a compelling user interface for Web applications in a cross-browser and cross-platform scenario. A browser plug-in, Silverlight focuses on .NET Web applications that need media support, sophisticated forms of interactivity, and client processing power.
In a way, Silverlight can be seen as a .NET-in-the-sandbox solution because it brings most of the programming power ...
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