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The legacy of Silverlight: A final goodbye

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The legacy of Silverlight: A final goodbye

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- [Instructor] Silverlight was a web application framework developed by Microsoft, introduced in 2007. I've included it in this chapter for historical reasons. To be clear, it's not a viable platform for development. It was officially retired in 2021. You can think of Silverlight as a browser friendly subset of WPF. It was a visually rich application development platform built on XAML and .NET. It allowed developers to create rich media and interactive web applications that could run across multiple browsers and platforms. Silverlight was designed as a competitor to Adobe Flash, but it offered a more robust and powerful development framework with support for .NET programming languages like C#. This made it appealing for developers already familiar with the Microsoft ecosystem. It's interesting to me that Silverlight and Flash had many of the features that the web community wants now. It is ironic that web development is returning to this model in some ways with the rise of WebAssembly…

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