Thanks to all for their answer to this question.



>>Question for anyone who wants to educate me. I do subscribe to NetFlix and know that they use SilverLight to provide their movies on demand, and it works great for that.
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>>But can someone educate me - what else is it able to do other than media presentations. I assume it must do a lot of other stuff. As many examples of what kind of apps could benefit from this would be appreciated.
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>>Thanks for allowing me to post and ask this here, I was kind of lazy and didn't want to research this out on the web as I figured a number of our members here could help with this immediately.
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>>Thanks....
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>I don't use NetFlix so I am not clear of yur question. Are you asking Netflix capabilities? If so no idea. Are you asking what Silverlight (SL for short) can do beyond media presentations? If so, you can create almost anything that you can do with a desktop application. You would however be restricted to what you can do (because you are in a sandboxed secure subversion of WPF). For eample there is an application on my computer which has data backend VFP with a multithreaded DLL as data access layer (why VFP backend and why MTDLL in between is a long story). A WCF service talks to that VFP MTDLL and finally UI is SL.
>I could give you my IP and you would just navigate there in your browser, right click on the application window that shows up and select "Install ... silverlight application". From there on you could be using an application that is connected to my computer out-of-browser. Data is on my computer and code runs on yours as if I wrote tons of javascript client code (but I only wrote C#). Performance is much over my expectations when I started to do it;)
>With samples on internet it makes you think that it is for "media" but it is virtually for anything and rich UI is gifted plus. For example I like:
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>http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
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>as a database application (fantastic media there with deep zoom but anyway it IS a database application).
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>PS: Probably SL,WPF and parallel tasks will be the upcoming subjects of my blog.
>Cetin