Silverlight vs WPF

Question

My organization is considering which technologies to use for our next generation of systems. We will be using .NET, but have not decided which user interface technology is b

Answer 1

Silverlight is a subset of WPF that is used in the Silverlight browser plugin. Both are good, but you have to decide whether you'll end up with a web-based or a windows application.

Silverlight doesn't have all of the capabilities that WPF does (partially for security reasons - it is used in the browser). With Silverlight, though, you have access to all of the rest of the web based application advantages (single upgrade location, etc. - JavaScript, CSS, and HTML).