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Remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application plug-in that competed with Adobe Flash before HTML5 pushed aside both? The introduction of OpenSilver this week by .NET software company ...

BlueFinity International, part of the Mpower1 group of companies, has announced that support for Microsoft Silverlight within mv.NET Solution Objects will be available with the formal release of ...

Microsoft today released documentation to help Web developers build secure Silverlight applications. Silverlight 2 allows applications to make Web requests to third-party domains (whereas Silverlight ...

64-bit capability is among the new features to be added in Silverlight 5, which will focus on business application usage Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application platform, which has been the ...

LOS ANGELES--Microsoft has unveiled the beta version of Silverlight 4, where one of the core development areas focuses on enabling "great business applications", company executives say. Scott Guthrie, ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

As Microsoft Corp. releases its Silverlight 2.0 rich media browser plug-in tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for the free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer. As a result, the software maker is ...

LAS VEGAS--Microsoft plans to extend its mainstream development tooling to Silverlight, its Flash challenger, and add support for dynamic languages. At the Mix '07 Web developer and designer ...

Moonlight desklets let developers write "standalone Silverlight" applications with Mono. It's a limited equivalent of Adobe AIR, says Mono chief. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...