Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Silverlight	Score 3.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's Silverlight is a development tool.	N/A

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Microsoft Silverlight

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Microsoft Silverlight
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	Microsoft Silverlight
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Silverlight Kiel Knisely Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Silverlight We picked silverlight 10 years ago because html 5 wasn't feature rich yet. We thought Microsoft was going to support for longer. Unfortunately html 5 became feature rich and silverlight got deprecated. At the time it provided features a normal browser could not Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight allows more adaptability and it integrates well with our products across the company. Adobe Flash crashes or doesn't work with our shipping campus. Incentivized Helpful? MM Mateusz Michałek Ekspert Chose Microsoft Silverlight There's no need to connect ASP.NET with JavaScript to get what they both can give us. Without Silverlight we always needed to merge sync and async technologies in order to achieve a nice and responsive GUI in web applications. We can only hope that Microsoft will go back to … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Third party Pro Add ons Pro Easy to implement
Top Cons	Minus Video recording Minus No support

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Silverlight
Likelihood to Recommend	1.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Silverlight
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft The Silverlight plug-in means developers can target a single, consistent runtime for browser-based apps, rather than working with the complexity of multiple browsers in different versions. You also get video and multimedia effects that are hard or impossible with pure HTML and JavaScript, though Adobe Systems' Flash has the same advantages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Easy to implement No need for additional frameworks on client side Out of browser capabilities Incentivized MM Mateusz Michałek Ekspert Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No longer being supported No upkeep with ria services Be nice to work in a modern browser Incentivized Kiel Knisely Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Microsoft Silverlight allows more adaptability and it integrates well with our products across the company. Adobe Flash crashes or doesn't work with our shipping campus. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Increased lecture delivery Improved academic experience Less A/V tech support and delay Zubair Ahmed Resident Physician Read full review
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