Slides used during the 2008/2009 Inspiration Tour of University in the UK. During this one hour session, we present Silverlight, show some cool sites that use Silverlight and show some examples of coding and designing for Silverlight using Visual Studio and the Expression suite

1. Inspiration Tour ’08
Microsoft Silverlight: an
introduction
Paolo Barone – blogs.msdn.com/pblog
twitter.com/pbarone
Ed Dunhill – blogs.msdn.com/edunhill

2. Evolution of the web
2000 2007

3. What Is User Experience?

4. What Is User Experience?

5. Building Rich Web Applications
Silverlight

6. What is Silverlight?
Plug-In
Cross-Browser
Cross-Platform
Media Experiences
Rich Interactive Applications

7. Yes but what does it mean?
• It means empowering you to build Rich Applications and web
sites like these:
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com
http://www.laguna-coupe.com
http://linerider.com

8. What can I do with it?
• Data access and Web Services consumption
• Rich interactions and animations
• High Definition Video
• DeepZoom

9. How does it work?
• XAML
• .NET language (C# or VB.NET or Python or Ruby)
• And now some demo sites...

10. Some demo sites:
DEEPZOOM
• http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/ClientBin/Te
stPage.html
• http://www.kbb.com/kbb/PerfectCarFinder/PhotoEdition.aspx
• http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html
• http://www.shoothill.com/darwin/
• http://mooncake.nxmix.com/prototype/EnterAccount.aspx
• http://photosynth.net/silverlight/photosynth.aspx?cid=766e3d
07-6ea8-43bc-b370-46a9e602e52e

11. Some demo sites:
Casual Gaming
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/zombomatic/en/
• http://www.popfly.com/users/Adam/Crayon%20Cannon
• http://apps.new.facebook.com/crayoncannon/
• http://buddyknavery.com/buddyknavery/default.aspx

12. Some demo sites:
Video
• http://www.smoothhd.com/
• http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/default.aspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/jumper.html

13. Some demo sites:
Rich Internet Applications
• http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/
• http://darimeya.co.uk/#Home
• http://www.robochamps.com/
• http://firelocator.net/
• http://www.augua.com/Showcase2.aspx
• http://www.crystalstation.co.uk/silverlight/ivorywhites/
• http://www.vertigo.com/SlideShow.aspx

14. How can I learn more?
• http://silverlight.net
• http://msdn.microsoft.com
• http://www.nibblestutorials.net
• http://expression.microsoft.com
Students can access all the software they need to create
Silverlight Applications here:
• http://www.dreamspark.com