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Moonlight

Moonlight is an open source implementation of the Silverlight browser plug-in, based on Mono (an open source implementation of .NET).

Moonlight is being jointly developed by Microsoft and Novell to:

allow Silverlight applications to run on Linux
offer a Linux SDK (software development kit) for Silverlight applications
use the existing Silverlight engine to develop desktop applications.

Like Silverlight, Moonlight manifests as a runtime environment for browser-based rich Internet applications (RIAs) and, similarly, adds to animation, video playback and vector graphics capabilities. Developers are also creating desktop widgets called "desklets" to extend Moonlight applications beyond the browser.

Related glossary terms: Expression Web Designer, Silverlight, Expression Graphic Designer, JSON (Javascript Object Notation), Expression Interactive Designer, Expression

This was last updated in February 2008

Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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