Moon Light & Sliverlight

1. An Overview of Moonlight
Applications Test Automation
Presented By:
Pradeep Kumar
MCA
(SRMCEM, Lucknow)
1E-mail- it.pradeepgupta@gmail.com

2. Introduction: Moonlight
Moonlight is an Open Source
implementation of Silverlight, primarily for
Linux and other Unix/X11 based Operating
Systems.
Microsoft and Novell announced a technical
collaboration that includes access to
Microsoft's test suites for Silverlight and
the distribution of a Media Pack for Linux
users that will contain licensed media
codecs for video and audio.
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3. What are the goals of
Moonlight:
 To run Silverlight applications on Linux.
 To provide a Linux SDK to build
Silverlight applications.
 To reuse the Silverlight engine built for
desktop applications.
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4. What is Silverlight :
 Rich Internet Application (RIA)
platform
 Capabilities are similar to
 Flash
 Java FX
 Web-based subset of WPF
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5. Silverlight 2.0
 Embeds Common Language Runtime (.NET)
◦ C#, VB, Boo, F#, etc
◦ Silverlight Class Libraries
 Subset of .NET Base Class Libraries with extra Silverlight
Functionality
 Silverlight Control Toolkit
◦ TextBoxes, Buttons, DropDownLists, Calendars,
DataGrids, etc
◦ MS-PL License
 Dynamic Language Runtime
◦ IronPython, IronRuby, Jscript.NET, VBScript, etc
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6. WPF / Silverlight features :
 Vector graphics & bitmap effects
 Data binding & UI update
 Animations
 Rich content: videos, images, sounds
 Styling, templates
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7. How does Silverlight Work:
 Silverlight is a browser control within IE and plug-in
within FireFox/Safari
 Silverlight content can be hosted into any container
element within an HTML document
 HTML can be overlaid on top of Silverlight content,
enabling easy page blending
 Silverlight can be programmed using regular
browser JavaScript
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8. Silverlight Events :
 Standard Events:
◦ Loaded
• KeyUp
◦ MouseMove
 Use .NET / ASP.NET AJAX event
pattern:
function onMouseEnter(sender, eventargs) {
sender.Fill = “Red”;
}
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9. THE BENEFITS OF SOFTWARE
TEST
AUTOMATION :
Test Automation has a lot of benefits like
cost, time and reducing man power etc.
Most Software development and testing
organizations are well aware of the benefits
of test automation.
A quick glance at the Web sites of any test
automation tool vendor will point out a
number of the key benefits of test
automation.
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