SilverLight limitations

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What are the limitations of silverlight? I mean what sort of functionalities we just cant have in silverlight which are easily available in ASP.net

Lalit M · Answer

Show here silverlight limitation Silverlight is missing Linux support, so people using Linux machine cannot run it on their machines and will have to stick to Windows and MAC OS. Silverlight will (naturally) be using the WMV and Silverlight will add to the use of the WMV file format. Using the WMV video format essentially makes Silverlight useless for the vast majority of video websites such as YouTube. It cannot play .avi and .mov file. Silverlight has no support for binding to models, binding to data, or even connecting to network resources to obtain data. Silverlight doesn't even have support 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. Once the accessibility features are provided with Silverlight versions, any existing test tools that support driving UI through Accessibility will be fully enabled to automate Silverlight applications Silverlight 1.0 does not support GIF-file format. Even it doesnâ€™t support BMP and other file format. It supports only JPG and PNG file format. Canâ€™t do sound processing. Socket programming is not possible. Per pixel bitmap editing, bitmap filters (convolution, color matrix, etc), bitmap effects (drop shadow, blur, glow) cannot be done. Webcam and Microphone support it not there. Built in file upload/download support is not available. The performance of Silverlight and Flash will be nearly the same. While Silverlight is using XAML as description language in a non-compressed format size of Silverlight component is large. In practical implementation of similar component in Flash and Silverlight it has found that size of Silverlight component is approximately 10-20 times larger than Flash component. To deploy Silverlight to client browser more than one components ship. (1) XAML files (2) .dll if using C# (3) Silverlight.js (4) Custom JavaScript file. Images/videos/sounds also required deploy separately. It has found in practical implementation of image animation, at some extent flickering occurs on image. It has found in practical implementation of image animation, at some extent flickering occurs on image. It has found in practical implementation of video play, audio may start playing before showing movie on screen. It has also found video can still continue to play after redirecting to other page. It may be it is bug of current beta release. Right now not any support to play Silverlight object as Windows application. Silverlight is new in market and required time to get acceptance in marke more details ----- http://www.mostlydevelopers.com/mostlydevelopers/blog/post/2008/08/21/Silverlight-Limitations.aspx http://www.silverlighthack.com/post/2008/07/20/Silverlight-20-Concepts-To-Become-A-Silverlight-Master-%28Series-Part-2-WCF%29.aspx

SilverLight limitations

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