Silverlight

[martymas]

any one know what is the purpose of

the up date silverlight

i installed it

but i couldnt find it

and after searching i found it in my documents

i tried to access it but

i couldnt find a way to open it

it was sending me round in circles

the help files dont HELP

i saw a post from pete_c

who said he installed and forgot it was there

so obviously it isnt important

other wise microsoft would be on our tails

any ideas

marty

[sethook]

Check here.....

[isteve]

If you watched any of the Olympics online this year you probably were using silverlight. I think it's Microsoft first step in to a cloud computing platform.

[jcl]

If you watched any of the Olympics online this year you probably were using silverlight. I think it's Microsoft first step in to a cloud computing platform.

It's a very long step. The underlying platform is somewhere between six and fifteen years old.

[Edit: At least six if you only count .NET, twelve if you include .NET's immediate ancestors, J++ and COM, fifteen if you include Java. Silverlight is a 'better Java plug-in' the same way .NET (like J++ before it) is a 'better Java'.]

[martymas]

thanks team

after reading set hooks link

it seems silverlight is a developers tool

but as a curious user ile have a look at it

with your help

since i installed vista

i seem to be learning all over again

from win xppro

but i enjoy the challenge

tho ime not as tech minded as most of you

thanks team for your help

appreciated

marty

Edited September 22, 2008 by martymas

[jcl]

thanks team

after reading set hooks link

it seems silverlight is a developers tool

Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash: a browser plug-in that supports 'rich' Web applications. The only real-world applications of it that I can remember encountering are the NBC Olympics site (which almost worked sometimes) and a few Microsoft sites.

(As I said above, Silverlight is in a sense an evolution of the Java plug-in. One of the improvements is that it's failed in the market immediately instead of slowly withering away over several years as Java applets did.)