Difference between WPF and Silverlight and .Difference between ASP.NET and Silverlight

 

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1.Difference between ASP.NET and Silverlight

S.No	ASP.NET	Silverlight
1	ASP.NET is Microsoft's technology for developing dynamic web application using .NET languages like VB.NET or C#. The code is executed on the web server and the results are sent to the user’s browser. This is comparable to the way a web site would be done with the PHP language.	Silverlight is Microsoft technology for developing Rich Internet Applications. It is a browser plug-in that allows code from .NET languages to be run in the user’s browsers making it easier to develop graphically rich applications without having to constantly go back and forth between the browser and the server. This is comparable to Adobe's Flash technology.
2	ASP.NET uses AJAX to improve performance in the browser by making post backs and calls between the browser and server asynchronously. ASP.NET AJAX uses new built-in types and controls and JavaScript.	Unlike ASP.NET, the bulk of Silverlight processing occurs on the client machine thus decreasing server resource utilization and improving the Web experience on the client. There is no concept of “Post back” in Silverlight.
3	Asp.net is not platform independent.	Silverlight is delivered as a cross-platform and cross-browser plug-in that exposes a programming framework and features that are a subset of the .NET Framework and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
4	ASP.NET is a server framework for building dynamic web applications. In Asp.net most processing happens from the server side.	Silverlight is a client-side framework geared at providing a rich user experience and/or other capabilities such as video streaming. In Silverlight most processing happens from the client side.
5	Both ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX are heavily dependent upon the ASP.NET page event life cycle, are tightly coupled to the server.	Silverlight is a free plug-in that encompasses a subset of functionality from the .NET Framework and WPF.Silverlight runs in the browser as a "sandbox" - a secure zone installed into the browser that accommodates Silverlight functionality while completely protecting the host platform from any possibly adverse actions performed by Silverlight
6	Asp.net can be hosted in IIS.	Silverlight can be hosted in IIS & Apache.
7	ASP.NET is Microsoft's competitor to JSP/JSF and the successor to classic ASP	Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash and Flex. Basically, a standalone runtime running inside a browser allowing animation, real-time 2D and vector rendering, etc

2.Difference between WPF and Silverlight

S.No	WPF	Silverlight
1	WPF is mainly used for creating desktop applications.	Silverlight is prominent for creating web based applications.
2	WPF extends support for advanced features of Windows OS. Few among those features are: 3D, complete documentation support and hardware acceleration.	The advanced features of Windows OS namely 3D, complete documentation support and hardware acceleration are not supported in Silverlight.
3	WPF includes extensive collection of data binding properties.	Silverlight does not support many data binding properties that are supported by WPF. Few properties that are not supported by Silverlight are ElementName, RelativeSource, UpdateSourceTrigger
4	In WPF, the custom markup extensions are supported through the markup extension support x:type.	The x:type is not available in Silverlight.
5	In WPF, the items that are added to the control named TabControl will be wrapped automatically within the TabItem.	In Silverlight, the items that are added to the control named TabControl will not be wrapped automatically within the TabItem.
6	WPF provides routed commands and all its controls are linked to commands using the property called Command.	Silverlight does not provide routed commands or Command property. Silverlight provides only an interface called ICommand. The developers have to create classes that implement this interface and the custom behavior has to be defined within the class.
7	WPF offers input binding support.	Silverlight does not offer input binding support.

3.Difference between HTML 5 and Silverlight

S.No	HTML 5	Silverlight
1	HTML5 needs to integrate CSS3 and JavaScript to add its effects to web pages.	On the other hand, Silverlight can be programmed without getting error prone due to usage of a statically typed .Net language. It is easier to program in Silver light.
2	While HTML5 is more resource friendly. This is the primary reason which Apple has given for not including support for technologies other than HTML5.	Silverlight has a disadvantage in that it consumes a lot of hardware resources of our device
3	When HTML5 will be fully standardized it is likely to get better support from all the newer versions of different browsers.	On the other hand, newer browsers would have to be compatible with older versions of Silverlight in order to get the proper functioning.
4	HTML5 uses multiple codecs to run videos on the browsers that are not considered in the Apple’s bloc.	Silver light always needs a plug-in for any case and would not even run on iPhone and iPad.
5	HTML5 video quality is not that crisp as other competitors and its lack of ability to provide video content of various quality levels on various bandwidths to the user is also a hindrance in getting the message across to low data rate users.	Silverlight offers good video quality and also provide video content of various quality levels on various bandwidths to the user.
6	HTML5 pages, when designed, should be compatible with all the browsers.	Silver light works just like a plug-in. We can simply add the functionality to for any browser.