

Pay for play give developers the opportunity to incorporate other namespaces not included by the default Silverlight installation. I fully expect Microsoft to add more functionality to these namespaces as development proceeds.Īnother unique aspect of Silverlight is the concept of “pay for play”.

While these namespaces don't have 100% of their full framework representations they are definitely a good start. Namespaces (albeit with limited functionality) included with Silverlight 1.1 include: NET Compact Framework but a completely different fork of code tuned to run as a small footprint applet. This is not a trimmed down version of the. The name “mini” is my own and is not a new definition from Microsoft. NET Framework, a “mini” CLR and “mini” versions of various. This environment has a “mini” version of the. Silverlight 1.1 (alpha release) is a CLR-based development environment. WPF/E includes a JavaScript-based presentation later that mimics the functionality of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). WPF/E uses JavaScript code to provide its user and developer experience. Silverlight 1.0 (still in beta) uses WPF/E. The Silverlight that is… Microsoft actually showed us two flavors of Silverlight in development. Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Mix 07 conference where Microsoft showed us the light. Just like Flash, Silverlight is a cross-platform (Windows and MAC) browser applet that runs WPF and CLR code all in a nice sandboxed environment. Silverlight is a CLR-based competitor to Flash. To better understand what Silverlight is you simply need to take a look at Adobe Flash.

Microsoft has officially entered the space of rich-interactive browser development with a new product called Silverlight.
