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          Silverlight
        
          Microsoft Silverlight delivers a full suite of powerful capabilities to business
          application developers, bringing the best-of-breed .NET platform to browser-based
          experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying
          modern business applications for the customer facing and staff-facing applications. 
          Some Silverlight features that can be especially interesting to industrial automation
          solution developers: 
          Scalable graphics: same HMI screen works well for different display resolutionsAnimation capabilities allow to visualize any technological processOpen architecture: developers can use third-party UI components and controlsPowerful design tools: Microsoft Visual Studio and Expression Blend |