A Step-By-Step Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey

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Guide To Begin the Silverlight Journey
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• 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 theres a .NET proportional, youve chosen
  its a great opportunity to take the dive!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Opening the first Silverlight application
• Go to Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and click on
  FilegtNewgtProject 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 dont appear to like what
  Microsoft has endeavored to offer in terms of
  Rich Internet Applications, however how about we
  recall that one thing its 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.

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• 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

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• 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 its 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

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