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Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.
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Expression 4 is available for download now! Expression 4 enables designers and developers to collaborate and create dynamic, rich applications, including Silverlight applications, using their existing skills and current toolset.
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Companies of all kinds use Silverlight to build interactive applications and deliver flawless streaming media to audiences on all types of screens, wherever the Web works. See the power of Silverlight in action and get inspired by clicking on a case study above.
Learn how Silverlight’s innovative technology and rich feature set can grow your business, your productivity and your profitability. Create a design once, and deliver it seamlessly to browsers, screens and devices of all kinds.
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Microsoft provides a broad range of free resources to get your team started with Silverlight. Download white papers, starter kits, trial downloads and more, and tap into the vast Silverlight community.
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Make the most of your content through flawless media experiences, with high-definition video delivered through live and on-demand IIS Smooth Streaming. These enhanced experiences can include DVR capabilities, slow-motion, multiple camera angles, alternate language tracks, and in-stream data feeds. Silverlight and IIS also provide advanced analytics and business intelligence, increasing a content provider's opportunity for monetization.
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Extend viewing times using IIS Smooth Streaming. Adjust the quality in real-time based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth and CPU conditions. Get minimal buffering and quick start-up time using HTTP-based adaptive streaming.
With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can easily support a wide variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered in Silverlight, extending format support beyond the native codecs.
Companies of all kinds and all sizes are using the power of Silverlight to reach audiences in new ways. To see how Silverlight is being used in the real world, click on the link below. Applications built with Silverlight naturally integrate with your existing SharePoint Server, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft Office backend systems while enabling the latest rich media features like HD video and interactivity. Bring rich Web-based or desktop applications to market quicker by using Visual Studio, .NET and other familiar technologies.
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Silverlight 3 offers a new set of features for building light-weight, sandboxed companion experiences for the Web that run on the desktop. Silverlight out of browser allows websites to build even closer, persistent relationships with customers. It enables...
Silverlight 3 allows developers and designers to apply content to a 3D plane. Users can rotate or scale live content in space without writing any additional code. Other effects include creating a queue in 3D and transitions.
Microsoft Silverlight is a single, .NET based development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Only Silverlight offers the same programming model, a free download and a common toolset targeting a wide range of browsers, operating systems and devices enables developers to write code once and optimize across many screens.
Silverlight 3 is packed with over 60 high-quality, fully skinnable and customizable out-of-the-box controls such as charting and media, new layout containers such as dock and viewbox, and controls such as autocomplete, treeview and datagrid...
Create user experiences using the innovative Expression Studio design environment. Built from the ground up, Expression Studio helps designers and developers to produce interactive Silverlight websites and rich media assets efficiently. Design a broad range of Web sites and applications with an extensive set of rich media content types, from vector/bitmap graphics, text, video and audio to key frame-based animation and effects plus breakthrough Silverlight features like DeepZoom, Pivot and Smooth Streaming.
See how easily Silverlight and Expression Blend can streamline your design and development efforts, and take your ideas from concept to reality faster than ever before.
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SketchFlow, part of Expression Studio Ultimate, revolutionizes the speed and efficiency with which you can demonstrate a vision for an application. SketchFlow provides an informal and quick way to explore, iterate and prototype user interface scenarios...
The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web as never before. The smooth, in-place zooming and panning that Deep Zoom allows is a true advancement and raises the bar on what image viewing should be...
