Microsoft focuses on wide Silverlight 2 implementation
October 13, 2008 —
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Microsoft is looking to increase the adoption rate and open-source capabilities of Silverlight, its media and rich Internet application platform. Version 2 was announced today.
Microsoft executives said that the company has focused on how to get Silverlight deployed on the most machines possible. The final release is a 4.5MB download that can install in under 10 seconds. All Silverlight 1 users will automatically be upgraded to version 2 in the coming weeks, and users don’t have to take an “explicit upgrade action.” As a result, Microsoft said it expects to see the software deployed on hundreds of millions of machines very quickly.
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s developer division, said Microsoft hasn’t cut any features in the final release. He called Silverlight 1, which shipped a year ago, a basic media plug-in, but version 2 brings enhanced video and adaptive streaming for crisp video. Silverlight 2 has a cross-platform subset of the .NET framework, which is compatible with the full .NET version.
“This gives the ability to use any programming language you want, so you can use C#, JavaScript, Python or Ruby all within the browser to build applications,” Guthrie said. “This is pretty unique, no one else out there is doing anything like that.
“One of the things we’ve heard over the last year from .NET developers that they find exciting is the fact that they can now learn one language, one tool, and one common programming model, and be able to build rich UI applications inside the browser that look visually stunning. That application can run on the desktop using the full .NET framework. Having that continuum that spans the server side with ASP.NET, the browser side with AJAX and Silverlight, and the desktop with WPF provides this spectrum where developers are no longer limited by the types of projects they can work on.”
Code running inside the browser using the .NET framework and Silverlight can run more than 1,000 times faster than JavaScript running inside the browser, Microsoft executives claimed. Silverlight 2 can work with a rich UI programming model that provides calendars, sliders and other controls. Those controls can let developers program applications at a higher level rather than having to manipulate every UI element directly.
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