- Silverlight - Home
- Silverlight - Overview
- Silverlight - Environment Setup
- Silverlight - Getting Started
- Silverlight - XAML Overview
- Silverlight - Project Types
- Silverlight - Fixed Layouts
- Silverlight - Dynamic Layout
- Constrained vs. Unconstrained
- Silverlight - CSS
- Silverlight - Controls
- Silverlight - Buttons
- Silverlight - Content Model
- Silverlight - ListBox
- Silverlight - Templates
- Silverlight - Visual State
- Silverlight - Data Binding
- Silverlight - Browser Integration
- Silverlight - Out-of-Browser
- Silverlight - Applications, Resources
- Silverlight - File Access
- Silverlight - View Model
- Silverlight - Input Handling
- Silverlight - Isolated Storage
- Silverlight - Text
- Silverlight - Animation
- Silverlight - Video and Audio
- Silverlight - Printing
Silverlight - Getting Started
In this chapter, we will look at a working example of Silverlight. We need two things −
First, we require a web page. Silverlight is intended for rich internet applications, It is designed to run inside of a web browser as part of a web page. The page needs to incorporate a suitable tag to load the Silverlight plug-in. It can also include the logic to detect whether Silverlight is installed, and can provide some fallback user interface, when it is absent.
The second thing we need is the Silverlight content itself. This tutorial will focus on the .NET programming model for Silverlight. We will create a compiled Silverlight application containing a mixture of XAML, the mockup language we use to define Silverlight user interfaces, and .NET code written in C#.
Create a Web-page
The easiest way to start using Silverlight is to create an ordinary website with HTML pages and no server side code. Let us look at a very simple example.
Step 1 − Open Visual Studio. Click the File menu, point to New