Deploying Silverlight - Why and How

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Deploying Silverlight—why and how

More and more applications and sites are deploying Silverlight, with use jumping from 33% to 45% since July ’09. Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework that integrates multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single, runtime environment. It provides .NET–based media experiences and rich, interactive applications for Internet browsers. Silverlight compliments other Microsoft products such as ASP.NET, Windows Server and Windows Media® to deliver cross- browser, cross-platform, interactive web application experiences. Its architecture is consistent with Web 2.0 paradigms, and it enables enterprise web developers to extend their skills and deliver better experiences.

Why should I get ahead of the curve and start taking advantage of Silverlight? Here are the capabilities. Highest quality and fastest web experiences – keep users engaged with animation, HD video, vector and 3D graphics. Plus, multi-thread support uses the full power of multi-core machines.
Go out of browser – Run applications seamlessly without connectivity.
Works with what you have – Silverlight helps you take existing sites to the next level. Integrating with existing Web technologies and assets such as ASP.NET and SharePoint® services is simple.
Access to millions of skilled developers – Tap into the talent pool of 6 million .NET developers.
Compatibility with Silverlight-enabled websites
Lower media delivery costs - Leveraging existing HTTP infrastructure and improving delivery over proprietary, streaming servers.
Windows, Mac, Linux – works across every major OS and all major browsers including IE, Firefox and Safari.
It’s all there – networking, web services, LINQ, generics, threading, dynamic languages.

For more information on Silverlight, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight

You can download the Silverlight Deployment Guide v2 to learn more about Silverlight deployment options: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9697941

Finally, you can learn more about Silverlight configuration options via Group Policy Settings here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9697942

Tags: Deployment, silverlight

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Josquin

As much as I like Silverlight on the Windows platform, as much I dislike it on other browsers or platforms. In my opinion, to offer audio or video functionality browser plugins are NOT the way to go. There should simply be an <audio> or <video> tag in the HTML-standard! These should point to preferrably free and open source codecs, which everyone can improve. Even a closed source video standard would be bettter.

I am currently writing this under openSUSE Linux, with a different browser (Firefox, because Opera would not let me write this comment). I am aware there is Moonlight, a surrogate Silverlight alternative. This however is not supported outside Firefox and even with Moonlight I cannot play streamed video from Technet Edge.

Come on, Microsoft! Develop Silverlight on Linux yourself en keep its functionality and version status on par with the Windows Version. Even better is the solution of using the video tag of HTML5.

I use several operating systems (Windows 7, Linux) and each has its own merits. Standardization has made the internet what it is today.

AlexVerboon

I see more and more companies that include Silverlight in their standard list of core applications (those apps each user has installed on their client).

Here is my brief description how to silently install Silverlight 3, Comments are welcome.

http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/09/microsoft-silverlight-3-silent-installation/

Alex

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