Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web, desktop, and mobile applications, whether online or offline.
This free web browser add-on, powered by Microsoft’s .NET framework, is compatible with various browsers, devices, and operating systems. It offers a new level of interactivity across all web platforms.
Silverlight supports advanced data integration, multithreading, HD video streaming (via IIS Smooth Streaming), and built-in content protection, enabling online and offline applications for various business and consumer use cases.
All Silverlight runtimes support rich media capabilities, facilitating fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality audio and video to all major browsers on both Mac and Windows.
The designer experience remains largely consistent across all runtimes, with the main differences found in the developer experience.
Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich internet applications and media experiences on the web. It advances media, 3D visualization, application development, and user experience, adding over 40 new features. This release provides developers with their first opportunity to explore these new capabilities.
Changes in Microsoft Silverlight 5.1.50918.0 :
Supported browsers include all major options, such as Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
- Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016
- macOS 10.6 -10.15
