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Microsoft Silverlight. Will Jefferson. What is Silverlight?. “Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.” -- from Microsoft website
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Microsoft Silverlight Will Jefferson
What is Silverlight? “Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and business applications for the Web, desktop, and mobile devices.” -- from Microsoft website YES, sort of: DESKTOP means Out of Browser (OOB) (still webish)
Sounds a bit like Adobe Flash Yes, and no… There is a lot of overlap between Flash and Silverlight Think of Silverlight foremost as a business application builder, but it can do Flash-like stuff too… Also think of Silverlight as being more of a delivery method than Flash… Whereas Flash is more like the actual content (often games and advertisements) delivered via the web Sliverlight is both a web delivery method and a framework for building business oriented RIAs
New, but Growing Fast… V1 – JavaScript-based, and bears little in common with the current release of Silverlight. V2 – Allowed the use of VB.NET and C# and a subset of the .NET framework. V3 – Additional capabilities for business developers including DataGrid and TreeView controls, various layout panels, and DataForm controls. V4 – Input functionality such as mouse right-click and mouse scroll wheel support. V5 – BETA – Additional graphics capabilities and 64 bit processor support.
Subset or Superset? Much of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Plus Silverlight Extensions
It’s Microsoft Only, Right? PC Mac Linux Windows 7 Phone (Tablet) Some Nokia Phones
So You Want to be a Silverlight Developer Works right out of the box—sort of VS Studio Silverlight Download (1) Silverlight Download (2) Expression Blend
Silly Vocabulary 101 XAMLs XAPs
XML Part is Easy Enough Create the XML file with Q & As Drop the XML file in the Silverlight Resources Folder Compile the Silverlight App XML file is automatically embedded in the XAP!
Silverlight Summary If you can do ASP.NET, you can do Silverlight Animation directly in XAML Funky .CS Code, extra Namespace Declarations Easy to Publish Painless if end-user does not have Silverlight PI