Microsoft Silverlight developers and consultants

July 25, 2011 - PRLog -- Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser and powerful cross platform development for creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.
Silverlight is a free plug-in powered by the .NET framework that is compatible across multiple browsers, devices and operating systems to bring a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works. With support for advanced data integration, multithreading, HD video using IIS Smooth Streaming, and built in content protection, Silverlight enables online and offline applications for a broad range of business and consumer scenarios.
Silverlight delivers a full suite of powerful features to silverlight developers, bringing innovative platform capabilities to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications for both internal and end-user applications on both sides of the firewall.
Why Use Silverlight?
Silverlight adds functionality to web applications that is just not currently possible in HTML-based websites. These capabilities are very similar to the Flash player and Flex technology. While much newer than Flash & Flex, Microsoft has made huge progress with their most recent release of Silverlight. It is now very competitive as a rich internet application platform. Companies with existing investments in .NET and that prefer to run applications on Windows servers, should take a good look at Silverlight.
a)      Engage users with exciting visualization tools, high-quality graphics and interactive applications.
b)      Deliver flawless HD streaming video to all kinds of screens: most major browsers, operating systems, set-top boxes and mobile devices.
c)       Protect valuable content both online and offline with built-in DRM features stream existing content without transcoding.
Key Business Features:
Out of Browser: Silverlight 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.
Perspective 3D Graphics: Silverlight 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.

Enhanced Results:
a)      Grow your business, your productivity, and your profitability with technology and tools that deliver exceptional value and accommodate the business model that fits your company best.
b)      Call on millions of existing developers and thousands of businesses already familiar with .NET development to help create and deploy Silverlight applications.
c)       Create rich Web-based applications that quickly integrate with your existing back-end systems. Easily enhance existing Web and SharePoint sites by incrementally adding Silverlight components.
What’s new for silverlight developers/consultants:
Silverlight consultants help organizations build the applications on Silverlight with Asp.Net web applications on Microsoft Dot Net platform.
a)      Extensive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight development.
b)      Comprehensive printing support now enables the creation of a virtual print view, enabling applications to deliver print-friendly documents.
c)       A full set of controls with more than 60 customizable, skinnable components makes it easy to build forms that can be sorted, resized and validated. New controls include RichTextArea with hyperlinks, images and editing.
d)      Localization enhancements with bidirectional text, right-to-left support and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and Thai and 30 new languages.
e)      The Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run both on the server and the client, reducing development time and testing resources.
f)        Managed Extensibility Framework supports building completely modular applications, allowing for fast startup and download, efficient development and testing, as well as agile customization and servicing.
g)      Windows Communication Foundation RIA Services introduces enterprise class networking and data access, allowing applications to work with any source of data and any server.
Advantages of Silverlight:
a)      Rich UI applications using WPF (similar to Desktop applications)
b)      Cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in