Microsoft Announces Silverlight for Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones
March 18, 2008 5:28 AM | Microsoft | Smartphone | Comments (0)
Microsoft has recently announced Silverlight for Windows Mobile 6 smartphones. Silverlight 1.0 for Mobile will provide animation, vector graphics, and media playback, and let developers leverage existing media assets to bring rich multimedia experiences to mobile devices, the company said. Unlike Flash Lite, though, it has not been available on Windows Mobile devices previously. Correcting that omission, Microsoft says Silverlight will be available for phones as a 1.0 version in the second quarter of this year. Meanwhile, Microsoft has made a beta available of a new desktop version of Silverlight. Whereas version 1.0 was geared more toward video, Silverlight 2 targets the RIA (rich internet application) space. |  |
It includes the .NET Framework, can be controlled via XAML (extensible application markup language), and can be programmed via Microsoft's Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools.
Previously, Microsoft and Nokia announced that the Finnish mobile-phone giant will add Silverlight support to Symbian S60 smartphones, Series 40 devices, and Linux-based Nokia Internet tablets. For more details, see the coverage on our sister site LinuxDevices.com, here.
