Benefits of MS Silverlight Development

Silverlight is a cross browser, cross platform plug-in that delivers a uniform experience to the user. Silverlight is more than just a plug-in for your browser as it has the power of a development platform. It is not aimed at replacing your existing browser but to increase its capabilities.

What value can Silverlight bring to your business :

Feature Rich Internet Applications

Features such as rotate and zoom, drag and drop cause a user to have a pleasurable experience. Before Silverlight came into the scenario, delivering this kind of user interaction and experience was expensive to develop and maintain. Silverlight can thus increase the level of interaction and experience a user has and can make websites more fun to use, which will certainly result in increased traffic to your site.

Enhanced Multi-Media Supportt

Silverlight can support a variety of codecs and hence easily delivers a seamless video capturing, playback and distribution experience. This feature of Silverlight also helps reducing the cost of uploading videos onto the web as it completely eliminates the requirement for time-consuming and expensive pre-production processing.

Silverlight also makes putting various artifacts on top of a video simple which increases the up-selling or cross-selling potential of your website and hence adds additional business value to your website.

Silverlight also lets videos have meta-data associated with them, making it easier to tag different points with additional information. This information can make searching within the website’s content easier and hence enabling an optimum use of video content.

Better Team Structuring

The Silverlight run-time supports XAML and hence proves very beneficial to the structuring of the design and development team. The designers can use their design tools and deliver the design in XAML only. The developers can then easily import the designs in XAML to their development tools and add the code to those designs directly.

This type of work functionality provided by Silverlight helps improving the efficiency of delivering the product and also improving the overall quality of the product at the same time.

This way of working has many benefits, like the design is abstracted from the business logic and the designer’s original design actually gets implemented in tact.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

All the content which is composed in Silverlight is completely textual and hence lends itself to be indexed by various search engines.

This feature of Silverlight helps in getting listed by various search engines driving awareness and traffic to your website.