Silverlight? Anyone?

I went to microsoft site and discovered this new thing called Silver light, and while i tried discovering what was it, i couldnt get a clue... any help here plz??

Linkhttp://silverlight.net/default.aspx

 

I would be interested in getting some responses. Some site I ran in to had me download that plug in. Looks like it is some interactive website something.

 

Silverlight is like flash (not exactly the same). You can add interactivity in your webpages with silverlight which is basically a set of javascript. Just like flash pages silverlight needs the silverlight plugin to display its contents.

 

Yeah, like Flash but much less popular, I'm not going to download it anytime soon.

 

but rarely get to use it - very few sites use it

 

Silverlight is slow and buggy.

(And I'm a Vista fan...)

 

Wow, really? I heard some good things about it...

 

this might help you understand the silverlight

Video

 

Silverlight is not new and is more like Adobe Flex's competitor rather than Flash. Anyway I haven't tested it but it does look very "loaded" and heavy

 

"Silver light" is micro soft version of flash on .net platform. Using silverlight software you can pretty much do everything that you can do using macromedia flash and more, eg: animation, video streaming, making movies, making games, interactive media etc.

for further info : http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/faq.aspx

 

Silverlight seems to be microsoft's version for flash lol

 

I played around it for sometime .. trust me there are some impressive things about it .. but its still buggy and developing anything isn't as easy as its in Flash. If you integrate it with Expression studio then it becomes a little user friendly ... u can also integrate it with visual studio ... but not in Express Edition :-( It still has a long way to go before it can become popular or any threat to Flash or Flex ..

 

is a nightmare this stuff from mister Bill i swear , my laptop continue to crash using that stuff !

 

it is supposed to be the future though, and unlike flash it's seo-friendly

try this search Google search seo demo ..theres a MS silverlight demo in #1.

 

Oh, wow. I have never even heard of that.

 

i have tryin so hard to get something out of silver light but couldnt =/

 

There is absolutely no way I'm downloading $ilverlight.

 

How hard is it to code?

 

I've had Silverlight for over a year.
It is basically a competition for Adobe Flash.
I'm interested in using Silverlight for my site, so I am learning.
Silverlight doesn't requireyou to buy anything, so I am all for it.
One more of Microsoft's amazing products.

 

People!

The idea behind Silverlight is that you don't need to learn another language, like ActionScript (for Flash).
If you are an ASP.NET developer, you can use C# to develop in Silverlight. So you need just one language for: desktop apps, web apps, "flashy" apps.

Of course it has some problems, is just at its 2nd version. Flash is 9. But Silverlight catched up very well.
So expect that in next versions to be better than Flash.