Today at MIX Microsoft announced not only I.E. 8 but showed off a new Mobile version of Silverlight. The big shell was the announcement by Nokia to support Silverlight on Symbian platform. Silverlight now works on several desktop browsers and mobile devices. So it is time to start looking at Silverlight for mobile.
Silverlight has a lot of useful features to building rich user interfaces with video including high definition video. Silverlight is a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation. So if you already develop with .NET your skills are still relevant. Silverlight use XML as declarative language to build UIs and includes support for data-binding, skinning, Textbox, Checkbox, RadioButtons, labels, panels, buttons and even datagrids. It also has built in support for calling REST, WS*/SOAP, POX, RSS and HTTP services.
For more information and to start using Silverlight check out Scott Gu's blog entry which includes a tutorial on Silverlight.
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