What Is New On Microsoft Silverlight 5

Roland | December 25, 2011 | Microsoft, Microsoft Silverlight, Softwares | No Comments

Silverlight is one of the flagship project from Microsoft; It is powered by rich technologies from Microsoft. Silverlight helping developers to deliver quality applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. In simple words we can say,Silverlight is a free plug-in that got powered by the .NET framework and it is compatible with multiple browsers.

Microsoft Silverlight 5 now got the ability to use hardware accelerated 3-D graphics in applications. This will bring some new scenarios that are possible with Silverlight such as 3-D drawn controls, geographic overlays, scatter points, data visualizes, 3-D charts and 3-D games and simulations.

The new version of Silverlight coming with ‘Trusted Application’ model to the browsers for the first time, when enabled it allows users to perform complex tasks such as multiple window support, full trust support in browser including COM and file system access, in browser HTML hosting within Silverlight with out leaving the web browser.

Silverlight 5 offers many advanced features including:

PivotViewer control

Trusted applications in-browser

3D graphics

Vector printing

Improved text rendering including the RichTextBlock control.

Hardware decode of H.264 media

You can download the Microsoft Silverlight 5 Plugin for your web browser from below link.

Download Microsoft Silverlight 5 Plugin from here.