subject: The Growth Of Microsoft Silverlight Development [print this page] Technology has considerably progressed in a past few years and that too at an astonishing speed. The internet has taken over the world in almost every sphere of human existence. Businesses too, have been affected by the hard-to-ignore presence of the internet. Today, most of the businesses have their websites as their identity. Especially, for the online stores, the ecommerce websites are much more popular than others, taking the place of real, physical stores. And there are now several options to make websites more interesting and interactive than ever. But it is important to understand that the look and the functioning of the website matter equally. A well organized, well managed website would fail to make an impact if it is not visually appealing. As for graphics and visuals, there are plenty of options that can make a website quite attractive.
Microsoft Silverlight, a web application development framework is fast growing in popularity because of the many advantages it brings along. Microsoft Silverlight development aims to bring together the best elements of graphics, multimedia and animations to give the websites a more presentable and inviting look. Silverlight has emerged as a much preferred option for a platform for the development of Rich Internet Applications. In competition with Adobe Flash and Sun Microsystems" JavaFX, it comprises the core presentation framework which is responsible for the User Interface (UI), basic UI controls, graphics and animation, media playback, interactivity and user input, DOM integration, Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). It also supports other features like extensible controls, XML Web Services, networking components and Language Integrated Query (LINQ) APIs and Silverlight also ships with a light weight class library, making it an even bigger success.
All these features combined have made Microsoft Silverlight development a very sought after framework, increasing the demand for Silverlight developers all across, making it an interesting and lucrative career option. Silverlight Development in India is growing at a fast pace and it is being recognized as one of the best options for web application development. As of now, five versions of Microsoft Silverlight have been released; each one adding new and more exciting features, making the technology a better success than before. Microsoft Silverlight has a variety of options to make the images more attractive in ways that were not known before. Initially, Microsoft Silverlight was aimed at giving competition to Adobe Flash, but now it is being used for a lot more than that.
