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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web, the desktop, and Windows Phone.

The documentation in this section applies to Silverlight 5, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 3, and Silverlight for Windows Phone. For version differences check the Version Information section when using a class library topic, or look for version-specific notes in other topic types. For more information about version differences, see What's New in Silverlight 5 and What's New in Silverlight for Windows Phone.

The following sections describe how to build applications with Silverlight:

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Is Silverlight worth the investment?

I would like to know what level of commitment Microsoft is making towards maintaining Silverlight as a viable technology, rather than surrendering to the alternatives of Flash and HTML5. One does not have to look very deep into the assortment of Microsoft web sites to find no Silverlight support at all, and primarily Flash-only content.

I am distressed when visiting msn.com, Bing.com, and Office.microsoft.com and getting the following message:

Please install the latest version of the free Adobe Flash Player. Download now.
For help with Flash, see Adobe's Flash Player Support page.

The Office site has improved in recent times, but it seems that the cool people at Microsoft know something about the pending future of Silverlight that the rest of us don't want to talk about. Microsoft has a history of abusing and abandoning its technology early adopters, and I fear that Silverlight is doomed to go the way of Liquid Motion and Microsoft Barney. I hope that this is not the case.

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Gov't and SharePoint use SL2
It would be greatly appreciated if you would help the Silverlight 2 community with an alternative presentation which used Silverlight 2.$0 In the Gov't contracting world, using SharePoint 2007 for instance, we are still back in IE7 or IE6 and using Silverlight 2.$0 $0 I see a Silverlight 3 menu, why not a Silverlight 2 menu with all that great SL2 content?$0 Better yet, provide a better customized popup menu to allow the user to refuse SL3 but accept SL2? I've seen that functionality demo'ed...$0 ... Please help, for the sake of those in need of Silverlight 2 capability, who have no option to move up to Silverlight 3.$0 $0 Indeed, in my second - after hours work - I'm developing in Silverlight 2. Lets not lock out SL2!$0 Lets embrace what we can do, not exclude the older. Include and lets have more content.$0 $0 Actually, quite a lot of SL2 still applies to SL2, so why not?$0 $0 Dan Wygant of the AclEditor com site (which is SL3) - you can also get the Craig List Multiplier fo'free too.$0 $0 [MSFT] It would be difficult to find content via search (e.g. Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc) if we had API reference docs for all the versions of Silverlight online. You can download the Silverlight 2 documentation as a CHM here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bce7684a-507b-4fc6-bc99-6933cd690cab&displaylang=en. In some ways, this is handier than online documentation because it is self-contained (you only get the Silverlight stuff) and you don't need to be online to access it...
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