07 July 2010

Microsoft Silverlight For Symbian
Now Available From Nokia Ovi Store

The good folks over at official Microsoft’s Silverlight blog announced the general availability of Silverlight for Symbian powered Smartphones.

This brings the Silverlight experience to the 20+ million users of Nokia S60 5th edition Nokia 5800 XPressMusic and Nokia N97 devices. Adding support for Silverlight extends opportunities for Symbian developers to create rich, interactive applications that run on multiple platforms in a consistent and reliable way. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications.

Silverlight is already powering thousands of applications around the world and organizations including Entertainment Tonight, the NBA and NBC Universal to deliver superior Web-based experiences to their customers.

Microsoft’s Silverlight team said: "We want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the incredible features in this product:"

• Media: Hardware assisted Media playback of H.264 content. This gives a great media viewing experience using full hardware decode and hardware post processing.
• IIS Smooth Streaming: Enables users to access live and on demand media content streamed using IIS Smooth Streaming including multiple bit rate switching.
• Rich UI: Developers get access to the Silverlight V2 surface area to create Rich Interactive Web Applications.
  .NET Programmability: .NET Compact Framework class libraries and runtime.

If you’ve Nokia 5800 Xpress Music or N97 or N97 Mini, you can download Silverlight from Ovi Store and try the various applications built for S60.

To learn, please visit Silverlight for Symbian. For starter, you can try the Bing and HSN applications.

Silverlight includes a runtime that is optimized to display content on memory-constrained devices. Silverlight support for Nokia S60 5th Edition devices includes:

You can create Silverlight-based applications for devices by using Expression Blend 2 (free trial version), Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, or Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Application deployment on IIS is supported in this release.