Silverlight hosting

Silverlight hosting is a cross browser and a cross platform with plug-ins that deliver media based on ASP.NET. The various browsers include IE, FireFox, Safari etc, while the platforms include Mac, Windows or Linux. It delivers various services such as music, videos and various other streaming entertainment services. It is quite similar to flash programs such as the Adobe Flash Player. Silverlight hosting also allows the users to view the media applications in the browser in a streamed setting directly. This means that the user can watch videos as also listen to music in real time. Silverlight hosting can also be integrated with various other web applications. Silverlight hosting is one of the leaders in the online media markets.

Silverlight Features:

• Silverlight hosting comes with a huge number of controls.
• It includes a framework for the navigation purposes in order to let the Silverlight applications use navigation models which are hyper-linked. Silverlight hosting also facilitates a direct linking to the particular pages within the applications.
• Silverlight hosting supports AAC audio decoding
• It also supports video decoding which is hardware accelerated.
• It offers 1080p smooth streaming.
• Silverlight hosting includes various 3D graphics and animation features as also text improvements that permits the users to develop next generation Web visual experiences. These include the folllowing:
  • Improved text rendering
  • Font support
  • Perspective 3D Graphics
  • Themed application
  • Pixel Shader effects
  • Animation Effects
• Silverlight hosting also offers more than 60 controls with a source code which are fully skinnable and customizable out of the box controls.
• Silverlight hosting also includes support for deep linking which allows for the bookmarking of pages within the internet applications.
• Silverlight hosting also allows the users to solve the search engine optimization related challenges. It helps in achieving a higher degree of search engine optimization and also enhances the ranking of the web site across the different search engines.
• Silverlight hosting also enables the users to have new experiences such as the ability to placing their favourite applications on the computers or Mac directly with links on the desktop as well as the start menu.

In order to view Silverlight hosting applications on any of the web server in the world, the Silverlight plugin has to be installed on the computer. If the user is on a web site that uses Silverlight, the applications can be viewed by simply installing the plugin. If the user has not installed, the web site will prompt the user to do so. Any computer in the world, a Mac, PC or any other, can easily view web sites by using the Silverlight technology.

Silverlight hosting System Requirements:
Silverlight hosting has requirements that are similar to any HTML pages and the users can easily run Silverlight on any of the Windows or Linux servers. Silverlight hosting should be preferably done on a dedicated or virtual private server as it can turn out to be resource heavy, especially if the user is planning to host a large media or entertainment web site.

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