What are the differences between Silverlight and WPF?
Whereas Silverlight is designed for creating rich web content or applications that can be viewed in multiple browsers and multiple operating systems, WPF is designed for creating rich Windows applications. WPF applications require the .NET Framework 3.0 or later, which is a much larger download than Silverlight, although Windows Vista and later operating systems already have it installed by default. Silverlight 1.0 is essentially a subset of WPF, although Silverlight also has a few unique pieces related to video, on-demand downloading of any content, and the control that hosts the content inside a web page. Some WPF features missing from Silverlight 1.0 are common user interface controls (such as buttons and scrollbars), layout panels, 3D graphics, data binding, rich document support, performance optimizations from hardware accelerated graph-ics, and more. In addition, Silverlight 1.0 applications don’t have the benefit of the depth and breadth of the .NET Framework APIs, unless you us
