Overview of Silverlight Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group Microsoft Ltd

Introduction

Microsoft UX Technologies ASP.NETASP.NET AJAXWin FormsSilverlightWPFDirectX Criteria Richness“Reach”Tooling Dev Model Status & Maturity Platform Access

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of.NET for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences & rich interactive applications for the Web.

A richer web with Silverlight

Timeline & Packaging Timeline V1.0 Released September 2007, V1.1 in Alpha (timing and some functionality TBD) Moonlight – timing TBD (Novell) Packaging Browser plug-in, little dependency on other s/w

Silverlight V1.0 and V1.1 Silverlight V1.1 Silverlight V1.1 Silverlight V1.0 Silverlight V1.0 V1.1 will add.NET to V1.0 CoreCLR Independent subset of the.NET Framework

Installing Silverlight

Developing

Declarative Development - XAML eXtensible Application Markup Language XAML usage Compiled to produce executable code Dynamically loaded (parsed or pre-parsed) Calculator c = new Calculator(); Multiply m = new Multiply(); m.P1 = 10; m.P2 = 20; c.Operations.Add(m) Code XAML

Core UI Capabilities Vector Based Graphics 2D graphics Primitives (ellipse, rectangle, path etc) Composition engine Transforms Brushes Text Ink Animation system Media Video Audio

Core UI Capabilities

Silverlight Programming Model Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 Code against both HTML and XAML content Integrates with ASP.NET AJAX controls JavaScript Silverlight 1.1 only CoreCLR + Silverlight.NET Framework subset VB and C# against both XAML and HTML content.NET

Silverlight, Documents and DOMs

Silverlight “Hello World”

Designer/Developer Tooling VS 2008 XAML Designer Look, behavior, brand, and emotional connection Developer Function, deployment, data, security, operational integrity VS Project Files

Silverlight Tooling Expression Design Blend 2, September Preview Encoder Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh SDK

Expression Tools

Deploying

Silverlight Streaming Provides developers a free, scalability-on-demand solution for Silverlight Free, 4GB hosting and streaming You build the application, we deliver the scale High quality, differentiated, controllable user experience Complete API Programmability

Silverlight Streaming

Resources

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