Web Application Development with Microsoft Technologies

Looking for briefly definitions about any new Microsoft Technlogy or trend?
This guide is intended to help fresh or new developers interested in learning about new Microsoft Technologies. Actually,  not only fresh ones, because with so many trends coming up, it is difficult to be up to date with everything !

 So this guide is intended to cover many technologies from Microsoft world in different areas. I hope this can be useful to you. I’ll be adding definitions as soon as I mention them in my posts, so you can have a single and simple repository for help.

Click on each title to get the definition and brief overview:

 What is Silverlight?