What is Silverlight?
Silverlight is a powerful cross-browser & cross-platform technology for building the next generation web experience & rich internet applications for the web. You can run Silverlight in most of all the popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. Silverlight can run in various devices and operating systems like Windows, Apple Mac OS-X and Windows Phone 7. Using Silverlight you can create rich, visually stunning web applications like flash. Also you can create smooth animations using Storyboards; you can stream media over the net etc.Silverlight web browser plug-in comes as free to install (approximately 4-5 MB in size). You can download the required plug-in from Microsoft Silverlight Site.
What are the System Requirements for installing Silverlight?
Minimum System Requirements for installing Silverlight plug-in is as follows:
| PC Type | Processor | RAM | Operating System |
| Windows PC | 500 MHz or higher, x86 or x64 bit processor | 128 MB | Windows XP SP2+ |
| Mac Power PC | PowerPC G4 800 MHz or higher | 128 MB | Mac 10.4.8 or higher |
| Mac Intel-based | Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz or higher | 128 MB | Mac 10.4.8 or higher |
Silverlight also supports Linux PCs. The plug-in name for Linux operating system is Moonlight and you can get the information about it in Mono Project's Moonlight site (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight).
Minimum System Requirements for installing Silverlight SDK for development is as follows:
If you are a developer and want to start working on it, you must need the following environment to install the Silverlight tools.
| Operating System | - Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher |
| Developer Tools | - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (for Silverlight 3) - Visual Studio 2010 (for Silverlight 3 & Silverlight 4) |
| Designers Tools | - Microsoft Expression Blend 3 (for Silverlight 3) - Microsoft Expression Blend 4 (for Silverlight 3 & Silverlight 4) |
| Silverlight SDK | - Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 |
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