SilverLight

Silverlight is Microsoft's next generation cross-browser, cross platform technology for delivering rich and immersive user experience. It brings C# and the rest of the .NET family of programming languages inside your browser meaning no more JavaScript! It uses a small ActiveX plug-in which typically takes less than 20 seconds to download and install.

Silver Light

We can say that Silverlight is a cross platform and also a cross browser which comes with .NET plug-in that helps designers and developers to build rich media experiences and RIAs for browsers. Silver Light is use full for both windows and linux platform. This features make silver light so popular. There are some of gud features of silver Light some of these are as follows:-

(1)Silverlight have the ability to play media content from any web-server. We can point Silverlight at any URL which contains video/audio media content and then its helps in downloading that to play with the browser. Silverlight can work with any web-server becasue its a plateform independent.
(2)Silverlight Other feature is that its helps in media streaming. This can done on Windows Media Server on the backend to stream video/audio.
(3)Silverlight help us for creating rich UI and animations. It supports a Javascript programming model to develop these.
(4)Silverlight have ability to resize running video on the fly without requiring the video stream to be stopped or restarted.