LabVIEW installation: Microsoft "Silverlight" EULA

[Pirate programe]

Originally Posted by Ether

What is Silverlight, and why do I need to install it to run LabVIEW? ...especially since I unchecked everything in the install options window except for LabVIEW and the 2012 License.

Microsoft Silverlight? It's a web development framework, and it's apparently used for LabVIEW web UI-related things. I can't imagine why it'd come up in a FIRST installation...

[dqmot17]

I remember last year using the Measurement & Automation (MAX) explorer to fix a cRIO, and it used Silverlight to display info.