Silverlight difference faqs-1
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The document compares and contrasts several Microsoft web technologies: - ASP.NET runs server-side and generates HTML sent to browsers, while Silverlight uses a browser plugin for rich client-side experiences. - WPF is for desktop apps, while Silverlight is for web apps and has fewer features than WPF. - HTML5 works across browsers but needs JavaScript, while Silverlight uses .NET and has richer media capabilities but requires its plugin. - Flash uses frames for animation while Silverlight uses time-based animation from WPF. Flash also has a more complex file format than Silverlight's XAML.
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- 1. 1.Difference between ASP.NET and Silverlight S.No ASP.NET Silverlight 1 ASP.NET is Microsoft's Silverlight is Microsoft technology for technology for developing developing Rich Internet Applications. dynamic web application using It is a browser plug-in that allows code .NET languages like VB.NET or from .NET languages to be run in the C#. The code is executed on the user’s browsers making it easier to web server and the results are sent develop graphically rich applications to the user’s browser. This is without having to constantly go back comparable to the way a web site and forth between the browser and the would be done with the PHP server. This is comparable to Adobe's language. Flash technology. 2 ASP.NET uses AJAX to improve Unlike ASP.NET, the bulk of performance in the browser by Silverlight processing occurs on the making post backs and calls client machine thus decreasing server between the browser and server resource utilization and improving the asynchronously. ASP.NET AJAX Web experience on the client. uses new built-in types and controls and JavaScript. There is no concept of “Post back” in Silverlight. 3 Asp.net is not platform Silverlight is delivered as a cross- independent. platform and cross-browser plug-in that exposes a programming framework and features that are a subset of the .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). 4 ASP.NET is a server framework Silverlight is a client-side framework for building dynamic web geared at providing a rich user applications. In Asp.net most experience and/or other capabilities processing happens from the such as video streaming. In Silverlight server side. most processing happens from the client side. 5 Both ASP.NET and ASP.NET Silverlight is a free plug-in that AJAX are heavily dependent upon encompasses a subset of functionality the ASP.NET page event life from the .NET Framework and cycle, are tightly coupled to the WPF.Silverlight runs in the browser as server. a "sandbox" - a secure zone installed into the browser that accommodates Silverlight functionality while completely protecting the host platform from any possibly adverse actions performed by Silverlight 6 Asp.net can be hosted in IIS. Silverlight can be hosted in IIS & Apache.
- 2. 7 ASP.NET is Microsoft's Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to competitor to JSP/JSF and the Adobe Flash and Flex. Basically, a successor to classic ASP standalone runtime running inside a browser allowing animation, real-time 2D and vector rendering, etc 2.Difference between WPF and Silverlight S.No WPF Silverlight 1 WPF is mainly used for creating Silverlight is prominent for creating desktop applications. web based applications. 2 WPF extends support for The advanced features of Windows OS advanced features of Windows namely 3D, complete documentation OS. Few among those features support and hardware acceleration are are: 3D, complete documentation not supported in Silverlight. support and hardware acceleration. 3 WPF includes extensive collection Silverlight does not support many data of data binding properties. binding properties that are supported by WPF. Few properties that are not supported by Silverlight are ElementName, RelativeSource, UpdateSourceTrigger 4 In WPF, the custom markup The x:type is not available in extensions are supported through Silverlight. the markup extension support x:type. 5 In WPF, the items that are added In Silverlight, the items that are added to the control named TabControl to the control named TabControl will will be wrapped automatically not be wrapped automatically within within the TabItem. the TabItem. 6 WPF provides routed commands Silverlight does not provide routed and all its controls are linked to commands or Command property. commands using the property Silverlight provides only an interface called Command. called ICommand. The developers have to create classes that implement this interface and the custom behavior has to be defined within the class. 7 WPF offers input binding support. Silverlight does not offer input binding support.
- 3. 3.Difference between HTML 5 and Silverlight S.No HTML 5 Silverlight 1 HTML5 needs to integrate CSS3 On the other hand, Silverlight can be and JavaScript to add its effects to programmed without getting error web pages. prone due to usage of a statically typed .Net language. It is easier to program in Silver light. 2 While HTML5 is more resource Silverlight has a disadvantage in that it friendly. This is the primary consumes a lot of hardware resources reason which Apple has given for of our device not including support for technologies other than HTML5. 3 When HTML5 will be fully On the other hand, newer browsers standardized it is likely to get would have to be compatible with better support from all the newer older versions of Silverlight in order to versions of different browsers. get the proper functioning. 4 HTML5 uses multiple codecs to Silver light always needs a plug-in for run videos on the browsers that any case and would not even run on are not considered in the Apple’s iPhone and iPad. bloc. 5 HTML5 video quality is not that Silverlight offers good video quality crisp as other competitors and its and also provide video content of lack of ability to provide video various quality levels on various content of various quality levels bandwidths to the user. on various bandwidths to the user is also a hindrance in getting the message across to low data rate users. 6 HTML5 pages, when designed, Silver light works just like a plug-in. should be compatible with all the We can simply add the functionality to browsers. for any browser. 7 While HTML5 being more tilted Silverlight application is not easy to towards open source is a relatively decode easy target of stealing code. The divisions of JavaScript and HTML are clearly marked so it is easy to view and understand the code. 8 At present HTML5 doesn’t Silverlight supports microphone and provide direct support for these web cam and thus renders a number of devices. However there are some rich interactive applications. difficult ways to get around this in HTML5.
- 4. 9 HTML5, like its predecessors Silverlight is not popular in the SEO facilitates search engines to crawl community. At present the content of through its content and get Silverlight is not indexed by search maximum exposure for the engines.Therefore,Silverlight is not website.Therefore,HTML5 is suitable for online business websites or suitable for online business those sites which require traffic websites or those sites which through search engines. require traffic through search engines. 4.Difference between Flash and Silverlight S.No Flash Silverlight 1 The animation model is frame Animation - Silverlight supports the based. WPF animation model, which is not only time based instead of frame based, but lets you define the start and end conditions and it will figure out how to get there for you. No need to deal with matrixes like in flash. Also no need to calculate positions on various frames. It just works. 2 Flash stores its shapes using Silverlight uses XAML. XAML is text binary shape records.In order to based and can be output using a simple write shape definitions, you will XML object. need to either license a 3rd party Flash file format SDK, or build your own. It is not too difficult, but it does require a bit of a learning curve. 3 The debugging with flash is The debugging with Silverlight is harder than Silverlight. simpler than with flash. 4 Dealing with fonts is fairly Silverlight lets you embed true type complex with flash. font information directly into your projects, and download that information with the downloader object. 5 Only Action Script can be used as Rich set of development languages are programming tool in Flash. available for Silverlight. Developer can use JavaScript as well as managed code VB.Net, C# for Silverlight development 6 ActionScript is an imperative XAML is declarative while language, which brings itself the ActionScript is imperative.
- 5. pitfalls of imperative languages Using imperative languages to build when compared with declarative UIs goes back to the early days of languages. DOS and Windows, when developers had to manage all of the API nuances when interacting with graphical panes. 7 There is not any such service Web Services support for Silverlight provided by Flash Streaming 8 Flash is not spread as across the Additional Support for mobile devices vast majority of both desktops and with desktop and desktop mobiles platforms, as compared to browsers:Silverlight is supported by Silverlight. Flash requires Flash Windows mobile device as part of a Lite preinstalled on mobile new service that the NBL have built. devices. Silverlight applications and media streaming can be run on a mobile phone – so Silverlight even at this stage is about more than just the desktop browser and desktop market. Silverlight may be seen soon on the Symbian OS too. 9 Flash requires video codec to Silverlight does not require video run .WMV videos. codec to run industry standard videos like .WMV 10 Flash does not support scalable Silverlight supports scalable video video formats from HD to mobile formats from HD to mobile. 11 Flash does not support Hardware- Silverlight supports Hardware-assisted assisted editing and encoding editing and encoding solutions. solutions. 12 Flash does not have XAML based Silverlight has XAML based presentation layer for SEO. presentation layer for SEO. 13 Flash does not provide End-to-end Silverlight provides End-to-end server server and application platform. and application platform. 14 Media server licensing is costlier Media server licensing is cheaper than than Silverlight. flash. 15 Flash does not support Scalable Silverlight supports Scalable full full screen video. screen video. 16 This limitation doesn’t exist with Silverlight is missing Linux support, Flash. so people using Linux machine cannot run it on their machines and will have to stick to Windows and MAC OS 17 Flash Video turned Flash into a Silverlight will add to the use of the mechanism for delivering media WMV file format.Using the WMV with far more potential than any video format essentially makes
- 6. other solution that is .flv, no doubt Silverlight useless for the vast majority Flash has also limitation to play of video websites such as YouTube. It other video file. For that Flash cannot play .avi and .mov file. required codex for that player installed on Client machine. 18 Even flash is also lacking this Silverlight has no support for binding area. Flash can read data source in to models,binding to data, or even terms of XML or text from some connecting to network resources to URL and can use it. Same thing obtain data. silverlight also can read. 19 Flash has rich set of control Silverlight doesn't even have support library. for things that should be considered a stock part of any library such as buttons, checkboxes, list boxes, list views, grids,etc. Probably in future release may Microsoft support it. 20 Flash test tools are already in Once the accessibility features are place. provided with Silverlight versions, any existing test tools that support driving UI through Accessibility will be fully enabled to automate Silverlight applications 21 With some media file sound Cannot do sound processing. processing can possible. 22 Flash allows creating XML Socket programming is not possible. Socket object. 23 Can do that. Per pixel bitmap editing, bitmap filters (convolution, color matrix, etc),bitmap effects (drop shadow, blur,glow) cannot be done. 24 Flash supports it. Webcam and Microphone support are not provided by Silverlight 25 Inbuilt Upload/download support Built in file upload/download support is there. is not available. 26 Flash has a long history that spans Silverlight is new in market and more than ten years, and already required time to get acceptance in got acceptance in market and market. being the most successful browser plug- in ,it is installed on over 90 percent of the world’s web browsers 27 Size of flash component is Size of Silverlight component is larger. smaller.
- 7. 28 Flash ships in single component It has found in practical that is .swf.Images/video/sounds implementation of image animation, at also incorporated in single some extent flickering occurs on .swf package. image.