# Silverlight Now Supports .NET (...and more) **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [April 30, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silverlight-now-supports-net-and-more/224266 "2007-04-30T19:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silverlight-now-supports-net-and-more/224266/1 "2007-04-30T19:13:53Z")
As I’m sure many of you know by now, [[U]Silverlight[/U]](http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx) is the new browser-based plug-in from Microsoft for running WPF/XAML content. The earlier versions only supported JavaScript for the actual code, but today at Mix 07, you can actually use your favorite .NET language such as C#, [VB.net](http://VB.net), Python, etc. to code the interactivity. [**[U]Download Silverlight Alpha 1.1 SDK[/U]**](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/eula.aspx?id=c8bf88e7-841c-43fd-c63d-379943617f36) The above version is what you will need for viewing content created using .NET, but for the 720p HD Video content, you can use [[U] **Silverlight Beta 1** [/U]](http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx) instead. For actually creating the UI and design elements, you can use Expression Studio to visually create the background XAML content. For extra features, you will need to use the [[U]Expression Blend 2 Preview[/U] and the [URL=“http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831”][U]Visual Studio “Orcas” Beta[/U]](http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blend2maypreview) release. The .NET support extends across both Windows and Mac, so creating content that runs on both platforms should be easy. For a more technical video overview, there is a good interview with Scott Guthrie here: [[U]http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=304508[/U]](http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=304508) :beam: