What is Silverlight?
Silverlight is a powerful development cross-platform for creating rich media applications
and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. It allows creating
cross-platform applications that are accessible, secure, and discoverable by search
engines through all major browsers on Mac, Windows and Linux client systems, and
mobile phones such as Windows Phone 7 and Nokia Series 60.
With Silverlight you can create rich web-based applications that quickly integrate
with your existing back-end systems. It enables Web-based applications to deliver
the business functionality users demand with a modern, efficient UI while securely
interacting with desktop files, devices, data and applications such as Microsoft
Office.
Advantages
- It is a cross-browser, cross-platform technology, which provides a consistent user
experience everywhere it runs
- It delivers rich UI Web applications that can get closes to the desktop applications
- Updates the UI without interrupting the user by refreshing the whole page
- It can run asynchronous communications with the server allowing the UI to continue
to function while waiting for the server response
- Integration with Enterprise based technologies like WCF, LINQ and RIA Services
- Security: Silverlight can use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to communicate with the
server
- Authentication:
- Windows Authentication: Active Directory (LADP), Local Security Authority
- Forms Authentication: User enters a user name and password combination, which is
submitted to the server for verification. It varies depending on how login screen
is implemented.
- ASP.NET Authorization: WCF Services, WCF Data Services
Engaging with ArtinSoft
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