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Companies of all kinds use Silverlight to build interactive applications and deliver flawless streaming media to audiences wherever the Web works. See the power of Silverlight in action and get inspired by clicking on a case study above.
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Live streaming video? Flawless HD playback? In-stream data? Multiple language tracks and camera angles? For rich media applications that engage viewers in new and exciting ways, Microsoft Silverlight together with IIS Smooth Streaming is the answer.
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Extend viewing times using IIS Smooth Streaming. Adjust the quality in real-time based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth and CPU conditions. Get minimal buffering and quick start-up time using HTTP-based adaptive streaming.
With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can easily support a wide variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and rendered in Silverlight, extending format support beyond the native codecs.
Companies of all kinds and all sizes are using the power of Silverlight to tell their stories. To see how Silverlight is being used in the real world, click on the link below. Applications built with Silverlight naturally integrate with your existing SharePoint Server, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft Office backend systems while enabling the latest rich media features like HD video and interactivity. Bring rich Web-based or desktop applications to market quicker by using Visual Studio, .NET and other familiar technologies.
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Silverlight 3 offers a new set of features for building light-weight, sandboxed companion experiences for the Web that run on the desktop. Silverlight out of browser allows websites to build even closer, persistent relationships with customers. It enables...
Silverlight 3 allows developers and designers to apply content to a 3D plane. Users can rotate or scale live content in space without writing any additional code. Other effects include creating a queue in 3D and transitions.
Silverlight lets you develop cutting-edge experiences with the highest performance on the Web using the technology and skills you have today—saving you time and money. It’s been designed to break down barriers between developers and designers, making collaboration easy and fast. With Silverlight, applications can run inside a browser or as a separate application. Skinning an application by changing its look and feel is easy to do without changing the underlying code.
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Silverlight 3 is packed with over 60 high-quality, fully skinnable and customizable out-of-the-box controls such as charting and media, new layout containers such as dock and viewbox, and controls such as autocomplete, treeview and datagrid...
It’s easy to rapidly create and prototype new ideas and digital experiences with Silverlight, Visual Studio, and Expression Blend. Expression Blend has been designed to let designers and application developers work on the same graphics and UI elements, streamlining the process and reducing miscommunication. Building on top of the powerful .NET platform, designers can deliver innovative, high-fidelity applications across different platforms and browsers through Silverlight.
See how easily Silverlight and Expression Blend can streamline your design and development efforts, and take your ideas from concept to reality faster than ever before.
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SketchFlow, part of Expression Studio 3, revolutionizes the speed and efficiency with which you can demonstrate a vision for an application. SketchFlow provides an informal and quick way to explore, iterate and prototype user interface scenarios...
The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web as never before. The smooth, in-place zooming and panning that Deep Zoom allows is a true advancement and raises the bar on what image viewing should be...
