Hello everyone Today I will tell you about a plugin called Microsoft Silverlight, which is needed for any multimedia to work on a website. Well, that is, some kind of animation, audio and video playback, in general, Microsoft Silverlight is needed for all this! But what’s interesting is, as I understand it, it’s something like this: Adobe Flash Player, only from Microsoft, now this is interesting! That is, with the help of this Silverlight, a video can be played on a website without using regular Flash!
Here's an unexpected joke, that's what I found out. So I don’t know whether you know it or not, but I will write - in 2015, support for NPAPI format plugins was disabled in many browsers. And that's why Microsoft Silverlight no longer works in browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome! Because of which there was a mountain of dissatisfaction on the Internet and all that, many users began to look for an option on how to enable NPAPI, but alas, this is no longer possible. However, you can use old version, for example, I used an old version of Chrome and there you can enable NPAPI! If you're interested, I wrote about this.
Microsoft Silverlight - Debriefing
Some users write that they installed Microsoft Silverlight and their browser stopped lagging when playing videos. I don’t know how true this is, but I think it’s quite possible. However, many users still write that this thing is of zero use, they downloaded it, installed it and didn’t notice the difference. Well, I understand all this, especially considering that Microsoft Silverlight no longer works in many browsers..
I also read one comment that the browser may freeze due to a site that uses Microsoft Silverlight, and all because the browser no longer supports this thing! Maybe this is why it freezes, because there is something on the site that the browser does not support. Well, this is logical...
As I understand it, then this moment Microsoft Silverlight only works in the browser Internet Explorer. If you use this browser, then you may not need to remove Microsoft Silverlight, but if you don’t use it, then I think you can remove it. Well, think for yourself, this thing is no longer supported by popular browsers, but YouTube generally wants to switch to a format WITHOUT Flash, using only HTML5 for video.. That’s how things are..
I also have this Microsoft Silverlight, and not just, but three pieces - regular, version 4 SDK and version 5 SDK. I don’t know where it came from, I definitely didn’t install this thing myself..
In general, I don’t know about you, but I’ll delete this thing
So, as I understand it, this thing is installed in these folders:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Silverlight\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\RIA Services\v1.0\Libraries\Silverlight\
In general, not only in these folders, maybe somewhere else. To check, open the system drive and where the search field is, that is, in the upper right corner, then write the word Silverlight there and you will see a lot of things, this is what I have:
A few thoughts out loud. It may be worth searching not by the word Silverlight, but by the phrase Microsoft Silverlight. I think so because maybe Microsoft program Silverlight is one thing, but there may be another one, the name of which includes the word Silverlight... Therefore, to be more precise, it is better to use the full name, that is, Microsoft Silverlight!
How to completely remove Microsoft Silverlight from your computer?
So, now about the removal. You can delete it either simply or using a certain deleter. I mean with the help of , its trick is that it will help you remove the program and will also help you remove the remnants of the program in Windows. In general, it removes and cleans it later. But today I’ll show you how to remove it manually and then how to manually clean Windows from residues..
Now just a moment. In general, I advise you to make a restore point before deleting. This is not difficult, in the end you will protect yourself from glitches, this is, so to speak, a good insurance policy in case something goes wrong. I already wrote how to do it in an article about it, I advise you to look at it.
So, to uninstall you need to click Start and select Control Panel there:
If you have Windows 10, then cool, no doubt, but there this item is in another menu, to call it then click Win buttons+X!
Then we find the Programs and Features icon there, here it is, launch it:
A window will open with everyone installed programs, you don’t just delete anything here! Well, that is, don’t delete just anything, because there may be glitches and all sorts of mistakes! Find Microsoft Silverlight in this list, click right click and select Delete:
Then the following message will pop up, here you click Yes (well, if you haven’t changed your mind, of course):
Then the following window will appear:
The entire removal probably took me about ten seconds. But, in the window, well, where the list of software is, I personally still have Microsoft Silverlight versions 4 SDK and 5 SDK:
They also need to be removed, but they are removed in the same way as the first version, where there is no SDK. In general, I think that you will not have problems with this
How to clean Windows after uninstalling Microsoft Silverlight?
In general, you uninstalled Microsoft Silverlight, but it is possible that there are remnants of this program in Windows. You can clean Windows of these residues, see how to do it. So first I'll show you how to remove file junk. This means you open the system drive and there in the upper right in the search field write the name of the program, that is, Microsoft Silverlight (if you just use the word Silverlight, the results will be less accurate):
You will find folders of files that belong to the Microsoft Silverlight component, although we have already removed it. All this CAN be deleted, BUT before that, make a checkpoint, here’s a look at how to create it. Whether to create it or not is up to you; there may be jambs after removing the remains, but this is rare. But if anything happens, then using a previously created restore point, you can return everything to the way it was. In general, guys, I warned you!
Well, that's all that was found on your system disk, all this relates to Microsoft Silverlight and can be removed. To immediately save yourself from the problems of one being deleted and the other not, I suggest you install the utility. This utility helps you delete even things that you don’t want to be deleted. But you can also delete it in a simple way by simply selecting Delete from the menu. In general, I selected all the folders, well, I completely forgot to select all the bottom two, and then I right-clicked on them and selected the Unlocker option (I already have the utility installed):
Then I select Delete from the menu and click OK:
Unlocker started deleting everything that I had selected and, to be honest, it was a little scary, because even this message popped up, then I clicked Yes:
In general, it deleted a lot of things, I really felt like all the roots of Microsoft Silverlight were being torn out of Windows... The fear still did not leave me, because for some reason I advised you to make a restore point, but I didn’t do it myself... Well, that’s it...
This is how it was removed for about five minutes:
In general, everything went well, now I’ll do a reboot to check later that there will be no glitches and jambs in Windows... I did a short reboot, launched the browsers and everything seems to be working fine. There were no errors, folders opened normally, in general Windows worked fine
So I won’t be 100% sure, but deleting file junk seems to be safe!
Now I will show you how to remove junk from the registry that is left over from Microsoft Silverlight
So look, hold down the Win + R buttons and write the following command there:
And click OK:
The registry editor will open; do not delete anything there for no reason. This is where we will look for garbage. To do this, hold down the Ctrl + F buttons and write there something like:
Microsoft Silverlight
In principle, you can just use the word Silverlight.. But with the full name the accuracy will be higher..
That's it, after this the search will begin. Anything that is selected later can be deleted. These can be either folders (on the left) or keys (on the right). Right-click on them and select Delete. Then press the F3 button to continue the search and so on until there is a message that the search is over! For example, I found some DisplayName key, if you double-click on it, you will see this:
That is, you see, even if there is not a word about Microsoft Silverlight in the name, it will still be inside! What I mean is that they are searched not only by name, but also by content, so rest assured that everything that is found is definitely Silverlight and can be deleted! In general, here is an example of how to delete a key:
I didn’t find any trash folders, but deleting it is just as easy, right-click on it and select Delete!
As you can see, everything is simple. If you do everything exactly as I wrote, then there will be no errors. Well, if you have doubts, then it’s better not to do anything at all, the stability of Windows is more important! But the most ideal option is to make a recovery checkpoint! Let me remind you once again that I wrote about this!
By the way, this way I also removed the Avast antivirus and cleaned out the trash can after it, if you’re interested!
Well, all the guys, good luck to you, I wish you a good mood and that you don’t have any problems!
18.08.2016Web technologies do not stand still, and everyone who has at least once simply configured a browser to suit their needs, or, moreover, has been interested in developing Internet applications, has come across Microsoft Silverlight. What is this product and what is it for?
When Silverlight appeared on the world market, it was immediately called a competitor to Adobe Flash, because first of all, silverlight is equipped with a plug-in to expand the capabilities of the Internet browser. But this program is of interest not only to users, but also to web application developers due to its wide application and varied functionality.
Silverlight is a cross-platform and cross-browser platform with which you can create interactive Internet applications, PC programs, mobile devices. So, more about the advantages and disadvantages of the program below.
The user is becoming more demanding of the software, and developers are trying to reduce the user's time for setting up the system to a minimum. Why would anyone bother to download and install additional components, and even if they are built into the browser by default, they still affect performance?
The creators of HTML 5 decided to take this step, abandoning the need to embed videos in YouTube using a plugin. But what about Microsoft Silverlight? For example, in Google browser chrome it is installed along with the flash plugin by default. For the user, the main advantage of using this plugin, compared to Adobe Flash, is lower system requirements, which allows you to work with the plugin even on a netbook. After all, on portable devices, using android os version 4 and higher, still decided not to use flash plugin.
Microsoft Silverlight - is this program necessary?
For browsers, Silverlight is available completely free for all supported browsers and platforms. The purpose of creating a plugin is to erase the boundaries between the variety of types operating systems, browsers, types of device models, diagonal and resolutions of their displays. Also, with the help of Silverlight, it is possible to display high-quality graphics on the Internet, show the interactivity of applications, and emphasize not only the wide range of their functionality, but also their design. This also applies not only to online applications.
All Silverlight applications can be written in any of the .net programming languages and all tools from Silverlight can be used to create .net solutions. Silverlight is also compatible with other products. For example, this program is also used in MS Office for more convenient development or synchronized work with the web.
The competition between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight is also one of the eternal confrontations that we know, such as Apple iOS And Google Android... But still, few ordinary users thought about this choice, because these are just plugins. But if we are talking about the development and implementation of ideas, then everyone chooses the environment to which they have best adapted.
Thus, the functionality of the program is quite wide, but is not accepted by the majority of typical users, due to the fact that many simply do not need it all. We hope that you have understood the Microsoft Silverlight program and understood what it is.
While working on the Internet, we often come across references to Microsoft Silverlight, which is so necessary for the operation of some player or control element on the page that interests us. So what is it and what is it for?
Microsoft Silverlight, along with the well-known Adobe Flash, is a software base or so-called platform that makes it possible to place audio and video recordings, animated graphics and various interactive RIA (Rich Internet Application) applications on Internet services. Support for this software platform implemented as in Windows environment(starting from Windows 2000), as well as MacOS, Linux and Symbian. Silverlight includes a browser plugin that allows you to work with Internet applications in the most popular browsers such as Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. Currently, most browsers for mobile devices also support this technology. Thanks to the introduction and widespread use of Silverlight, colorfully designed and fully interactive Internet resources of the Web 2.0 standard have appeared. In other words, we have almost full-fledged programs that are not inferior in functionality to regular applications on our computer, but can be launched directly from the window of our favorite browser.
The advantages of Microsoft Silverlight include:
- the ability to install the plugin in any of Windows systems, MacOS or Linux;
- the plugin is completely free;
- installs in just 10 seconds and weighs only 4 megabytes;
- support for playing high-definition video recordings;
- support for playing video and audio of popular formats in a browser window without using Windows Media Player;
- programs that run in a browser window do not need to be installed;
- You can access your favorite application from any computer connected to the network;
- a program that is not installed on a computer is much more difficult to infect with a virus;
- your favorite applications no longer need to be updated; this is done automatically by the developer himself.
And one more benefit for developers: any text written in Silverlight-based applications can be indexed and will be available to search engines. Adobe Flash couldn't do that.
But not everything is as simple and smooth as we would like. There are a number of shortcomings that prevent applications written on this platform from completely replacing the programs we are familiar with.
Among these disadvantages are:
- the capabilities of the programs are still very limited, since they cannot receive full access to computer resources (web applications are launched in a special so-called sandbox, that is, a strictly isolated safe environment);
- when first launched, Silverlight places its engine in the browser cache, so the application can take a long time to open, especially on weak computers;
- it is impossible to run the application on a computer not connected to the Internet;
- with each new version The complexity of programming in Silverlight increases.
In the end, I would like to give a few examples of websites and Internet applications created using Silverlight technology:
Joe Rassic is a fighting game where dinosaurs act as fighters;
Pre-Columbian Artifacts is a virtual museum in which each exhibit can be examined in detail;
Warstory - tactical strategy about the Second World War;
In addition, the well-known widgets for the sidebar Windows panels Vista and Desktop Windows desktop 7 are also written using Microsoft Silverlight technology.
Web technologies are constantly being improved and almost every advanced user who has configured a browser to suit their needs, or moreover, is developing web applications, has come across the Microsoft Silverlight program. So what is this Microsoft Silverlight software product and is there a need to install it?
Many people know that Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser module platform created for the design and development of Internet applications, programs for computers and mobile devices. As soon as Silverlight from Microsoft appeared on the market, it immediately received the status of a competitor Adobe Flash, because the product was designed specifically to expand the capabilities of the browser. But not only advanced users, but also web product developers became interested in the application due to its wide capabilities. The browser extension works on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
From the point of view of an inexperienced user, Microsoft Silverlight is perceived as an ordinary add-on with which the user device can be expanded to view web pages with a variety of visual effects, audio-video clips and animation.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Microsoft Silverlight
Probably the main advantage of the Microsoft Silverlight program is the ability to work with the XAML extension language, for which Microsoft Silverlight is especially loved by advanced web designers and Microsoft Silverlight programmers. The fact is that some of the developers' ideas cannot be implemented due to the limitations of the web platform. And the solution here is the XAML markup language, which works perfectly in tandem with Microsoft Silverlight. The product allows you to save the web page created by the designer in XAML format, after which the document will be displayed in the browser field. The developer will then have access to the document in java-script. I think you are already beginning to understand what Microsoft Silverlight is and whether you need it.
To put it simply, developers get after Microsoft installations Silverlight is a more simplified and convenient tool for creating games, animations, widgets, banners, etc.
Graphics plugin functionality
- playing videos without involvement Windows Media Player;
- support for .NET and .XAML languages;
- There is streaming called Smooth Streaming;
- Expression Studio 3's Sketchflow tool increases productivity and speed;
- placement of content in three-dimensional space;
- Deep Zoom function, which allows you to smoothly and quickly zoom videos on the Internet;
- CPU-based decoding is available in Microsoft Silverlight;
- facilitated interaction with large amounts of data on the Internet;
- the size of the executable files does not exceed 4 megabytes and installation takes ten seconds;
- there are pixel shader effects;
- The Microsoft Silverlight plugin is installed in browsers, which eliminates the possibility of it becoming infected with viruses;
- compatibility with a variety of platforms (cross-platform).
Disadvantages of the Silverlight program
- Microsoft Silverlight software does not always work properly on outdated computers;
- works only if there is an active Internet connection;
- It has limited access to the device's resources, which somewhat affects the capabilities.
Now, after we figured out that this is Microsoft Silverlight, you can see for yourself that the product has a lot of advantages, but only a couple of disadvantages. For creating RIA applications The product is the best among all others due to access to the browser DOM and calling RIA code from java-script.
To summarize, the Microsoft Silverlight application is actively used by developers when they need to implement certain ideas in a convenient way for them. software environment. The product was not particularly well received by ordinary users, because they simply did not need its wide functionality.
Video for a detailed review:
Microsoft Silverlight is not a program. On the one hand, it is a technology for developing multimedia software on the other hand, a platform for developing this software.
Official Microsoft Silverlight logo
Why is it needed?
Silverlight was developed by Microsoft as a broader, safer and more productive technology than its direct competitor. The purpose of both technologies is identical, namely the development and support of applications with vector, raster 2D and 3D graphics, audio and video clips. It is a platform for RIA applications.
RIAs are web applications that are downloaded to the user’s device for execution. While working, they can complete components from the Internet.
Silverlight combines 4 of the most important modern web components.
It was assumed that Silverligth would be deployed on each operating platform, but in fact it appeared only on Windows, Mac OS X, Symbian. Cross-platform also implies that an application developed using Silverligth should work well and look the same as on the screen personal computer, and on the display of a tablet or smartphone.
A key component of the Silverligth platform is XALM, a markup language. It allows you to include text in your application that is indexed search engines(Google, ).
Silverlight applications (starting from version 2) are part of the .NET technology, which allows them to be developed in any of the platform languages (C#, Object C++, Python).
What do you need to install
For a programmer, installing Silverlight involves deploying the appropriate development environment on your PC: Visual Studio on Windows and Mac OS X, and Mono on Linux.
For the user, Silverlight is a module or plugin for a web browser. To use its capabilities, you need to download a browser that supports it.
Do you need Silverlight
If you are a user, then the answer is clear. No. In 2012, the technology was officially recognized as unpromising and obsolete. And today not one modern browser does not support it (except for Edge).
Although there are several hundred powerful enterprise solutions on Silverligth, the number of applications is dwindling every month. Microsoft experts suggest that by 2021 there will not be a single Silverlight-based application left.
The user should not worry that some web component will be inaccessible to him. Software manufacturers in their software products either long ago replaced components written in Silverlight, or implemented support for both Silverlight and Flash.
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