Microsoft SilverlightMicrosoft Silverlight is a technology suitable with many . NET Framework platforms and browsers for building and delivering multimedia content and services, as well as advanced interactive applications (RIA, Rich Interactive Application) for the Web. Silverlight combines the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to functionality of the server, the Web and the desktop, the managed code and dynamic languages, and declarative and traditional programming too.

Silverlight allows the creation of forefront appliances provided with the following features:

- It is a technology suitable with many platforms and browsers. It runs on all popular browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.

- It can be quickly downloaded in few seconds.

- It manages video and audio streams. It is able to adjust the video quality to mobile devices and desktop browsers up to 720p HDTV video modes.

- It includes compelling graphics that users can edit, or drag, flip, zoom in or out, directly in the browser.

- It reads data and updates the display, but it does not interrupt the user by updating the entire page.

- The application can run in Web browser, or it can be configured so that users can run it on their own computer (out-of-browser).