Tip 1: What is Microsoft Silverlight

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Tip 1: What is Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is softwarea platform that is distributed as a module for the browser and enables you to run audio, video clips, as well as animations and vector graphics on the websites where this technology is implemented.

Using Silverlight

Silverlight is responsible for displaying graphics andimages in the user's browser, providing the implementation of the technology for displaying active content. The platform is also widely used for creating widgets for Windows Vista and Windows Sidebar. The technology implements WMA, WMV and MP3 playback, but does not require the installation of additional modules from the user side, as it was implemented in the Windows Media Player extension. Silverlight is widely used on the Internet because of the large number of possible tools for working with the interface, extending the capabilities of the user and the web developer.

Writing Silverlght code can be done in any language from the .NET platform.

Silverlight is an alternative toolcreate active content on websites. In addition to this solution from Microsoft on the Internet widely used technologies such as Adobe Flash, HTML 5 and JavaFX.

Installing Silverlight for the user

To date, the latest version of the moduleis Silverlight 5, which is available on the official website of the project, created by Microsoft. Go to the company's website in the download section of the plugin using the browser you are using. Click the Download Now link and wait until the installer downloads.

Silverlight is supported by all modern desktop operating systems Windows and MacOS.

Run the downloaded file and in the window that appearsClick the "Install Now" button to start the installation of the product. Close the programs you use to work with the Internet and wait for the file to be unpacked. After the installation is complete, you will receive an appropriate notification on the screen. Click the "Close" button and start your program to browse the Internet. Now you can play content on sites where this content display technology is used.

Disadvantages of technology

There is a version of Silverlight for phones,working on the basis of Windows Phone. However, Silverlight is not available for the Android and iOS platforms, which makes this technology impossible to use on almost all mobile platforms. This means that the applications written on it are accessible only to computer users. Among the shortcomings of technology, it is noted that the plug-in can not work with other systems other than Windows and OS X. Also, a program written in Silverlight will not start if the user does not have an Internet connection.

Tip 2: How to look on the Internet First Channel

Most bodychannels both federal and local, duplicate theirTV shows and broadcasts on the network. They are available for downloading and viewing on-line. In order to watch "First Channel" online, use a number of simple actions.

Instructions

Click the http: //get.adobe link.com / en / flashplayer / and click on the Download button. Download the application, then run and install it. During the installation, the program will ask you to close the browser, perform the action, and after the installation is complete, run it again. Keep in mind that periodically, upon the appearance of new versions, the application will be automatically updated.

Optimize your Internet connection andComputer for the best video download speed. Disable any programs that somehow may affect the active network connection. These include torrent clients, download managers, as well as instant messengers and programs that download updates. By this you will be able to free up the Internet connection channel. If viewing the video online is still difficult, select the worst quality, then start the preview and click on the pause. Wait until the download bar is the same length as the timeline, and then start the scan.

On the site of "First Channel" you can alsosee thematic Internet channels dedicated to various topics - entertainment, sports and documentary, as well as many others. Click on the corresponding submenu that appears after clicking on the link "Online" on the main page. In this case, you will need to install one of two plug-ins for the web browser - Windows Media Player plug-in or Silverlight player. Consider installation on an example of installing a Silverlight player.

Follow the link http://itv.1tv.ru/silverlight.html and click on the "Install now" button, located under the title "To view this content, install Microsoft Silverlight". After that, select your operating system and save the file. Run it, after closing the browser, and install the application.

Tip 3: What to do if the page on the Internet does not open

Sometimes, with access to the Internet,opens only a specific site or even a separate page on it. The measures that should be taken in this case depend on the reason for the page being unavailable.

Instructions

If you enter the full address of the page manually,for example, if you see a link in a printed publication, check to see if all the characters you typed correctly. Even a typo in just one of them will lead to the impossibility of loading the document. Do not confuse the capital letter O with zero, the lowercase letter l (L) - with the capital I (i), and so on. The possibility is also possible that the address you read has a typo, or the link is old, and the document has been moved. In this case, go to the main page of the site and try to find the page in one of its sections.

In case you can not follow the link withone page to another, located on the same site, this means that the address of the second document is incorrect. Also, the owner of the resource could move the page, and then forget to change the link to it. Find the coordinates of the owner of the resource on the site in the "Contacts" section and inform him about the error.

If the page is not displayed correctly, the reason may be incompatibility with the browser you are using. Try to open it with other browsers on your computer.

Even if the page is displayed correctly,work its individual elements. If this happens, check if Java, Flash, Silverlight plug-ins are installed on your computer (in Linux - Moonlight), whether javascript processing is enabled in the browser. Install the plug-in or reconfigure the browser.

Having discovered that when you try to open a documentInstead, it is notified that extremist materials are on it, immediately leave the page. If this notification is displayed when you try to open any page of the site, and not only a specific one, your provider uses an outdated software and hardware complex that blocks not the full URLs but domain names. Report this to the company's support team. If the upgrade does not follow, and to view the rest of the pages on the site is required, for example, for work, it is recommended to change the provider.

Tip 4: How to add a presentation to the site

Presentation of a product or service can not onlyshow in the conference room, but also put on the site. In this case, a much larger number of people will be able to read it. Even those who do not have OpenOffice.Org Impress or Microsoft Office PowerPoint can view the presentation.

Instructions

Create a presentation in the OpenOffice package.org Impress, and then use the tools of this program to export it to the SWF format. Then put the resulting file in the same server folder as the HTML file, then paste the object into the desired place on the page using the following structure: <embed src = "myflashfile.swf" quality = "high" pluginspage = "http: // www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer "type =" application / x-shockwave-flash "width =" 320 "height =" 270 "allowScriptAccess =" sameDomain "allowFullScreen =" True "> </ embed>. After that, all visitors to the site who have Adobe Flash Player plug-in will be able to view the document. This method allows you to dispense with creating a file without a paid Adobe Flash program. Note that in older versions of OpenOffice.org there is no export function in SFW format.

Go to the first of the links given inend of the article. You will be taken to the site intended for hosting presentations. Log off, then upload the document saved in PPT format. If you already have an OpenID, you can skip the registration step by using the existing account instead. You will receive a snippet of code that you need to insert into the desired place of the HTML file. To view the document, the site visitor will need the Moonlight plug-in or Silverlight plug-in.

Try also to use another hostingFor presentations, click on the second of the links at the end of the article. From the previous one, it differs in that instead of the Silverlight technology, the HTML5 standard is used. This means that the site visitor does not need any plug-ins to view your document, but his browser should be relatively new (released no earlier than the beginning of 2011), and the corresponding function in it must be enabled. In IE, it can be disabled by default.

Place the document in any public folderserver. Go to the third of the links at the bottom of the page. Copy the full URL of the document in the "Enter the URL below the document below to generate a link to it." Click on the button "Create link". After it is generated, put the resulting HTML code snippet in the correct place on the page. Depending on which of the fragments you select, the visitor of the site will see a link to the web interface of the viewer, or the latter will automatically load.

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