Microsoft released silverlight before four years in Las Vegas with an intention to lead the rich internet applications market. During this four years, Microsoft has made 5 releases of silverlight where each new version made silverlight development easy and fascinating. Silverlight development is used to create mobile, desktop and online rich internet applications. Silverlight development is done using .Net language which itself a highly flexible and diversified application framework. Silverlight uses XML as a mark up language and use of such traditional languages reduces the learning curve of developers. Silverlight is a popular platform for delivering business applications. Application created using silverlight can run with all browsers like internet explorer, safari, Mozilla at the client side network. This characteristic of silverlight applications is known as cross-browser compatibility. In silverlight technology, data is stored at the server database thus speed of application is higher compared to other applications. Silverlight works with all computer OS and Mac thus known as a cross-platform technology.
Expert silverlight developers can create uncountable applications ranging from web based app to the most complex video game. Software development company using silverlight platform can create audio streams applications. The exclusive features of silverlight make the coding part easy for expert silverlight developers also silverlight allow developers to create dynamic code in a separate file which he/she can use anywhere in the development of rich internet applications. A well known site “Twitter” is developed using silverlight technology. The effective architecture of silverlight allow expert silverlight developers to work on a single project simultaneously which fastened the development process. Businesses can outsource silverlight development services from the reputed and experienced software development company and increase their sales. Microsoft's silverlight is similar to Adobe's Flash with some advance features.
Microsoft has recently released silverlight 5 which completely meets its requirement of isolating web development and web design part. This isolation has helped developers to create more effective web designs. The advancement in internet technology and data management tools have revolutionized the online world. Now, websites can handle more data and browsing speed is increased a lot. The introduction of smart phones add more fuel to this growing market. More users are accessing internet from their mobiles to read news, play online games, find specific location or any other information,read e-book,etc. Users expectations are growing as the each day passes and to meet this demand of end users, businesses often come with the unique online solutions.