What Is Silverlight?
Microsoft Silverlight is the most comprehensive offering for the rapid creation and delivery of sophisticated applications through a Web browser. Forged from technology used in over 100,000 companies and understood by over 4 million developers worldwide, Silverlight has the full support of Microsoft's tools, technologies, and thriving partner ecosystem.
 
Compelling Experiences
Increase repeat visits and brand ... Increase repeat visits and brand loyalty while dramatically reducing customer support costs through compelling, intuitive, high performance Web experiences.
Increase user productivity and ... Increase user productivity and accuracy by providing an attractive, easy to use application user interface that mimics the behaviour of desktop software applications.
Create differentiated and branded ... Create differentiated and branded experiences using Silverlight's high quality graphics, High Definition video, Deep Zoom, and engaging animations.

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Silverlight Training Resources
Visit the Silverlight Community site for training, quickstarts, and whitepapers.

Silverlight Partners
Find resources to help drive and implement your Silverlight solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Silverlight

 
Powerful Technology
Create applications that are accessible, ... Create applications that are accessible, discoverable by search engines, and secure.
Deliver applications to all major ... Deliver applications to all major browsers on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Extend Silverlight experiences to the desktop and mobile devices using the same tools and technologies.
The comprehensive Silverlight solution ... The comprehensive Silverlight solution includes familiar market leading tools, servers and frameworks.

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Silverlight Training Resources
Visit the Silverlight Community site for training, quickstarts, and whitepapers.

Silverlight Partners
Find resources to help drive and implement your Silverlight solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Silverlight

 
Accelerated Results
Call on millions of existing developers ... Call on millions of existing developers and thousands of businesses already familiar with .NET development to help create and deploy Silverlight applications.
Create rich Web applications that ... Create rich Web applications that naturally integrate with your existing back-end systems. Easily enhance existing Web Sites and SharePoint sites by incrementally adding Silverlight components.
Rapidly cross-train Web developers ... Rapidly cross-train Web developers already familiar with one of the many languages supported by Silverlight.
Reduce time to market and improve ... Reduce time to market and improve team productivity through the advanced designer-developer workflow between Expression Studio and Visual Studio.

Ready to
experience Silverlight?

Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on this browser or operating system. System Requirements

Silverlight Training Resources
Visit the Silverlight Community site for training, quickstarts, and whitepapers.

Silverlight Partners
Find resources to help drive and implement your Silverlight solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Silverlight