What is the difference between SilverLight and WPF?

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Hi What is the difference between SilverLight and WPF?

Vulpes · Answer

Silverlight is used for writing rich web applications which depend at runtime on a browser plug-in available for both IE and Safari. It is somewhat similar in purpose and scope to Adobe Flash. Silverlight is also used as the application development platform for Windows Phone 7. WPF is used for writing even richer desktop applications for Windows. It is a more sophisticated alternative to Windows Forms. Both make use of XAML as their UI mark-up language.