Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian – Beta now available

Nokia Betalabs today announces the public availability of Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian – Beta. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for creating media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers and mobile phones. Silverlight beta contains an installer for Symbian^1 devices and developer tools for developing Silverlight applications on Nokia Symbian^1 (S60 5th Edition) mobile devices. 

With this release, we have come one more step closer to bringing Silverlight to the Symbian platform that holds single largest market share in the Smartphone market and hence extend Silverlight reach to mobile devices. While Microsoft has done cross-platform work for Silverlight on the desktop, this is the first time Silverlight cross-platform work has been achieved on a non-Microsoft mobile platform.

This beta release is primarily focused towards the developer community so they can start building great experiences on mobile devices. If you’re an existing Silverlight developer or you’re new to Silverlight and would like to get started, the resources below will help you:

• Learn about Silverlight – http://silverlight.net
• Download Silverlight for Symbian – Beta Developer Tools
• Download Silverlight for Symbian – Beta (device installer)

Filed Under: Nokia

Tags: .NET • 5th Edition • application • Available • Beta • Cell Phone • cross browser • cross platform • interactive • Microsoft • Mobile News • mobile plan • new products • new release • Nokia • phone news • rich • S60 • silverlight • Symbian • Symbian 1 • Telecom news