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Developing for Silverlight is pretty sweet... - etoven - 19th March 2012
Just wrote my first "out of the browser" app using Silverlight. This is really cool, Microsoft has combined flash and adobe air functionality into the new silverlight 4 and 5. I just wrote a Silverlight 4 app that installs from the web page with a single click and once the user grants the app "extended trust" my program has the ability to do anything a regular windows app can do, only now I can skin everything and create cool transition effects with the power of Silverlight and windows presentation API, and it's GPU accelerated.
Best of all Silverlight is free to develop for, all though I do own VS 2010 ultimate which does make life allot easier. It's really to bad that Silverlight isn't as popular as Flash it really has allot of cool features. Like as far as I know, Flash still doesn't support DRM for streaming video and it's really expensive to develop for.