Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no major ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Microsoft released its first application for the Android mobile operating system this week: The Microsoft Tag mobile barcoding reader. Might Silverlight be Microsoft's next Android app? The move makes ...

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Microsoft is attempting to quell the notion that Silverlight is becoming less strategically important to the company as it sets its sights on HTML5. The dearth of Silverlight-related information at ...

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It's important that you first understand the fundamental differences between Silverlight and WinRT apps. Take a look at Table 1 for a quick comparison of each platform's technology. Windows 8 is more ...

At a Silverlight event today, Microsoft gave a first look at the next version of the company’s development platform. Silverlight 5 will be a more complete, more capable development platform, and it ...

Microsoft's next iteration of Silverlight brings with it some big improvements to media handling and power efficiency. It also promises to make it easier, and faster to build apps. Josh Lowensohn ...

Microsoft is nearing the finish line with the 2.0 releases of both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of its Silverlight competitor to Adobe Flash. Late last week, Microsoft released the first public ...

Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D, ...