Last Updated on July 11, 2021
Mono Moonlight is a web application framework that provides similar functionality to Adobe Flash, a cross-platform browser-based application runtime.
It integrates multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment.
Moonlight is C# and other DLR (Dynamic Library Runtime) based. It is currently provided as a plugin for Firefox and Chrome.
Features include:
- Provides a Linux Software Development Kit to build Silverlight applications.
- Supports Zoom, Control Framework and Layout Framework.
- View Silverlight content.
- Run Silverlight applications.
- Moonlight desklets – run Silverlight applications natively on the desktop.
- Watch videos delivered with Smoothstreaming.
- Video capture support.
- SSE2 fast paths for gradient fills in the embedded Pixman/Cairo.
- Element to element binding.
- Usable outside of the browser as a Gtk+ widget.
- Client HTTP stack.
- Cascading styles supported.
- Works on any modern 32 bit and 64 bit Linux distribution under Firefox 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5.
Website: www.mono-project.com
Support: GitHub
Developer: Mono Project
License: GNU LGPL v2
Mono Moonlight is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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