How to Get Started with Silverlight

Silverlight is a web browser application that allows you to create rich web applications.This technology helps create robust RIAs and is used in over 100,000 companies by over 6 million developers worldwide. Silverlight delivers an HD-quality experience and works with many web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Since it's only about 4 MB in size, it takes only minutes to install it and get it running.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

1. Navigate to the Silverlight download page.

2. Click the Silverlight download link and click "Save" to download the program to your desktop or other location on your computer.

3. Double-click the downloaded Silverlight file and click "Run." Click "Install Now."

4. Verify that installation has been successful by going to the Silverlight site. Drag your mouse across the media window on the Silverlight site. As you move your mouse, the applications on the media window move as well. Click the application you want to test.

References

• Installing Silverlight

Resources

• Silverlight Download
• Silverlight Site