What is the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight?

The ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight allows you to quickly create rich web mapping applications using a fully interactive configuration experience. With the product, you can set up and modify an application's basemap, operational layers, tools, colors, title, logo, layout, links, and more without writing any code or editing any configuration files. Moreover, the Viewer is fully extensible, so designers and developers can implement new tools and create new layouts and easily integrate them into the Viewer.

What can you do with the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight?

The ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight is a ready-to-deploy Web client mapping application for ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online services. With the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, you can do the following:

• Use ArcGIS Online, Bing Maps, or ArcGIS Server map services as basemaps
• Add data from ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online on top of your basemap
• Open maps from ArcGIS Online
• Perform map navigation
• Find addresses and place names (through ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server services)
• Run GIS analysis (via Geoprocessing services)
• Edit features of feature layers that have editing enabled
• View tabular data for datasets within the map
• Zoom to layers and selected features
• Print with ArcGIS Server Print Services or pre-supplied layouts
• Query the related records of a layer
• Add secure map services via user login or proxy page