Silverlight Streaming Software Application: Features Based Analysis of Programming Languages

Abstract

Silverlight framework is widely used for internet applications such as video streaming, animation and communication. These days, it supports to development tools for Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) type languages that are used to create programs and libraries. These languages have taken a place as event driven environment. Frequently and rapidly Silverlight applications are writing through the CLI and selection of the right programming language for these Silverlight application is still a problem for developers. Therefore, general characteristics comparison between four CLI types visual programming languages are presented in this paper and these are compared under the peculiarities; browser compatibility, rich media extension, keyword along data types and cross platform. Furthermore, video media streaming player Silverlight application is developed as an instance to test languages characteristics. This effort could help developers to choose better programming language among them for Silverlight applications.