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title: "What is difference between WPF and Silverlight?"  
description: "What is difference between WPF and Silverlight?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-03-11  
updated: 2020-09-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/394/what-is-difference-between-wpf-and-silverlight  
category: "silverlight"  
tags: ["silverlight"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is difference between WPF and Silverlight?

Silverlight uses a particular implementation of xaml parser, with that parser being part of the silverlight core install. In some cases, the parsing behavior differs from the parsing behavior in WPF.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Silverlight uses a particular implementation of xaml parser, with that parser being part of the silverlight core install. In some cases, the parsing behavior differs from the parsing behavior in WPF.\


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