Building Business Focused Applications with Microsoft Silverlight
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Are you looking for a platform on which to build your business applications? You might consider using a not-so-obvious choice: Silverlight. Yes, it has amazing graphics abilities, but there's a lot more to it than just a pretty face. In this article, we'll take a closer look at Silverlight's advantages, and why it deserves serious consideration from developers of business applications.
Microsoft’s Silverlight, especially its new 3.0 beta version, is usually synonymous with ultra cool visual effects, the ability to create mind-blowing animations, and a number of other stunning media capabilities. Very rarely -- if ever -- do we hear about Silverlight being a business application platform, which is a shame, considering all that it’s capable of doing for both large and small businesses alike.
Silverlight powers rich application experiences wherever the web works, and it has great potential for business application tools and techniques that are sure to make any developer’s life much easier. Unfortunately, what’s usually the case is that developers have to make a trade-off between a rich interactive experience through the use of a client application and the super easy development they can have with a web application.
From a professional standpoint, Silverlight has the potential to help businesses find the middle ground between these two choices. Just imagine: what if you could develop business solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet application, and take advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET?
Using Silverlight for business purposes will allow users to learn about the exciting new technology that is centered around making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. Microsoft’s Silverlight has made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier development; provided application level solutions to developers; and has done all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.
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