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You are reading this article since you are either intrigued by what Silverlight brings to the table, or perhaps you need to begin developing in Silverlight.
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Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • Introduction: • You are reading this article since you are either intrigued by what Silverlight brings to the table, or perhaps you need to begin developing in Silverlight. Maybe you are only inquisitive to perceive how Silverlight may help you enhance your web applications; or possibly you were dependable excessively sluggish, making it impossible to learn Flash (like me) and now that there’s a .NET proportional, you’ve chosen it’s a great opportunity to take the dive! Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • Understanding Silverlight: • According to Microsoft, • “Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.” • As per Wikipedia: • “Silverlight is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation.” Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • Overview of Silverlight: • Here are a few points of what Silverlight brings to the table: • 1. It is compatible with different browsers on Macintosh and Windows. • 2. It empowers the rendering of richer user encounters that are characterized by XAML. • 3. It renders media (video and music). • 4. Developers and designers can construct their Silverlight applications based upon their preferred code including JavaScript or managed .NET code. • 5. The plug-in is of less size (2MB) to download for end users, and subsequently simple to embrace. • More can be perused on the Silverlight Architecture at MSDN. Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • Opening the first Silverlight application: • Go to Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and click on File–>New–>Project; select Silverlight Project; enter a project name e.g. “First Silverlight” and click on OK button. • Comparison between Flash and Silverlight: • There have been many discussions on this subject. Flash developers don’t appear to like what Microsoft has “endeavored to offer in terms of Rich Internet Applications,” however how about we recall that one thing: it’s another release! What were the primary adaptations of Flash like? Obviously, there will be confinements and possibly blemishes in the prior releases. One preferred standpoint Microsoft has on its side is this: It can gain from all the shortcomings of the prior Flash versions throughout the years. One cannot be one-sided and say which is better since Flash may be better for a few engineers and Silverlight better for others. One is keen on Silverlight for one reason and one reason just: Being a .NET developer, one can make Silverlight applications in visual Studio utilizing C#. Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • So it just is by all accounts the undeniable decision for me. • It is proposed you go to the Silverlight Homepage and read why you ought to utilize Silverlight. • A rundown of sites and discussions are accessible here composed of engineers on both sides of the wall. It is additionally essential to realize what the new components are in the most recent 1.1 Alpha release contrasted with the initial release. • This can be found on MSDN here. It is said in light of the fact that a considerable measure of articles that remark on Silverlight have just utilized or referred version 1 Dot Net Training
Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey • We have now got an introduction as to what Silverlight is and how to develop your environment to make your own Silverlight applications. We have experienced a basic venture to see what makes up a Silverlight application and how every one of the pieces fit together. We have just secured the fundamentals and this is just the tip of the mountain. In further articles, in all probability, we will bear on from where we left off, make sense of how to debug our Silverlight projects and cover some more advanced components and features. All the more critically, we will take a gander at some prettier cases by playing with Expression Blend. Presently it’s dependent upon you. Try different things with XAML, download the specimens and play. Good Luck! • CRB Tech reviews will continue to enlighten you with such technical articles on .NET. • Related Articles: • Microsoft Silverlight : Top 10 Features • Top 5 Silverlight Development Tools Dot Net Training
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