Microsoft Silverlight

msillegality · 05-07-2011, 07:30 PM

Okay. Windows 7 gurus, help! After ~~extensive research~~ Googling the crap out of it, I still have no clue what it is, except for a vague notion of it being a graphics editor or something that businesses benefit from. When I open it, I get a menu that looks like a settings page. I click thru all the little sub items, hit ok, and the thing closes with nothing happening. It doesn't show up in my taskbar or the little item dock thing in the bottom right or anything.

Curiosity got the best of me. Anyone wanna enlighten me?

***Cosmonautical*** · 05-07-2011, 07:42 PM

It's in the first line at Wikipedia, actually:

Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running browser plug-ins or other rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash.

That means it's like an SDK for developers, it's basically a reference library for multimedia plugins so you don't have to write every bit of one yourself. It's a tool to aid you in creating things like the widgets.

msillegality · 05-07-2011, 07:45 PM

I read the Wiki article and all I understood was that it was an Adobe competitor. So it's used to run web apps, basically? I only found it because I was bored and decided to explore all the programs that my netbook came loaded with. It might be interesting to play around with...

***Cosmonautical*** · 05-07-2011, 07:47 PM

Not exactly, but it's similar.

msillegality · 05-07-2011, 07:50 PM

Okay. I'll figure something out. Thanks!

05-07-2011, 07:30 PM	#1
msillegality Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Virginia Gender: Posts: 67 Thanks: 12 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Microsoft Silverlight Okay. Windows 7 gurus, help! After ~~extensive research~~ Googling the crap out of it, I still have no clue what it is, except for a vague notion of it being a graphics editor or something that businesses benefit from. When I open it, I get a menu that looks like a settings page. I click thru all the little sub items, hit ok, and the thing closes with nothing happening. It doesn't show up in my taskbar or the little item dock thing in the bottom right or anything. Curiosity got the best of me. Anyone wanna enlighten me?

05-07-2011, 07:42 PM	#2
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	It's in the first line at Wikipedia, actually: Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running browser plug-ins or other rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. That means it's like an SDK for developers, it's basically a reference library for multimedia plugins so you don't have to write every bit of one yourself. It's a tool to aid you in creating things like the widgets.

05-07-2011, 07:45 PM	#3
msillegality Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Virginia Gender: Posts: 67 Thanks: 12 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I read the Wiki article and all I understood was that it was an Adobe competitor. So it's used to run web apps, basically? I only found it because I was bored and decided to explore all the programs that my netbook came loaded with. It might be interesting to play around with...

05-07-2011, 07:47 PM	#4
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,151 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Not exactly, but it's similar.

05-07-2011, 07:50 PM	#5
msillegality Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Virginia Gender: Posts: 67 Thanks: 12 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Okay. I'll figure something out. Thanks!