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 ...

The new DataForm control and enhanced support for data-driven applications make it possible for developers to deliver line-of-business applications to any user with a Silverlight-enabled Web browser.

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With the release of Silverlight 3, Microsoft continues its race to catch up with the product’s main competition-namely, Adobe’s Flash. To a large degree, Microsoft has done a good job, adding many ...

Remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application plug-in that competed with Adobe Flash before HTML5 pushed aside both? The introduction of OpenSilver this week by .NET software company ...

For reasons that are not immediately clear to me, it seems that a lot of developers who attended Microsoft's recent PDC event were surprised to hear that the company now sees HTML5 as the way forward ...

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac. Video: Silverlight in action Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be. To ease that pain, Microsoft ...

Microsoft today released version 3 of its Silverlight framework for developing rich interactive applications (RIAs) and its Expression Studio Web and graphics design suite. While numerous developers ...