Official website (https://www.microsoft.com/silverlight)
Microsoft Silverlight
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application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications
Key facts
- Developer
- Microsoft Corporation
- Initial release
- September 5, 2007 ; 18 years ago ( 2007-09-05 )
- Final release
- 5.1.50918.0 (January 15, 2019 ; 7 years ago ( 2019-01-15 ) ) [ ± ]
- Preview release
- None [ ± ]
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows , Windows Mobile , Windows Phone 7 , Mac OS X , and Symbian OS
- Platform
- ARM32 , IA-32 and x86-64
- Type
- Application framework , run-time environment and multimedia framework
- License
- Freeware
- Website
- microsoft.com/silverlight
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Silverlight 5 - Microsoft Lifecycle | Microsoft Learn
Silverlight 5 follows the Fixed Lifecycle Policy.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- computing platform
- Part of
- Windows Essentials
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Official website
- www.microsoft.com/silverlight
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- programmed in
- C#
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/silverlight
- Commons category
- Microsoft Silverlight
- software version identifier
- 5.1.50918.0
- operating system
- Symbian
- inception
- 2007-09-05
- derivative work
- Moonlight
- copyright license
- freeware
- discontinuation date
- 2021-10-12
- implementation of
- Extensible Application Markup Language
- described at URL
- tapor.ca/tools/1342
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich internet applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, later versions supported multimedia, graphics, and animation, and gave support to developers for CLI languages and development tools. Silverlight was one of the two application development platforms for Windows Phone, but web pages using Silverlight did not run on the Windows Phone or Windows Mobile versions of Internet Explorer, as there was no Silverlight plugin for Internet Explorer on those platforms.
Microsoft terminated support for Silverlight on Internet Explorer 11 (the last remaining web browser still supporting Silverlight) on October 12, 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Microsoft Silverlight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.