Introduction
Over the past few years, Silverlight, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), has quickly become the technology of choice for developing the next generation of cross-browser, cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Silverlight is a browser plugin that promotes a collaborative development environment of rich online media content that enables developers and designers alike to integrate multimedia and graphics into web pages within the context of Microsoft .NET frameowrk's managed environment. This article takes a look at the striking new features in Silverlight 4 and how they can be used in application development to design and implement applications with intuitive user interfaces with support for rich graphics and media.
Why Silverlight 4?
Silverlight 4 provides a great tool for designers and developers to build cutting edge applications with awesome multimedia and graphics. In Silverlight 4, you have excellent support for printing, rich reporting and charting, support for web camera and microphone, support for COM automation, support for local file access, support for new languages, rich text editing, and, improved support for data binding to name a few. Also, you can easily integrate your Silverlight 4 applications with back-end systems and server products that include SharePoint. Silverlight 4 is amazingly feature rich and its evolution will increase the demand for building LOB applications using Silverlight 4.
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