Summary

Microsoft has positioned Silverlight primarily as a platform for developing business applications, and the platform has become one of the best around for doing so, despite some strong competition. It evolved very quickly during its early life, but now that it has matured as a platform, the pace of releases has slowed somewhat. It provides an excellent balance between richness and reach, enabling you to develop rich applications that can run on both the Windows and Mac operating systems. Let's now get started learning how to build business applications in Silverlight.