The document discusses the basics of Silverlight including its features, advantages, and architecture. It outlines Silverlight's capabilities such as replacing Flash/JavaScript, client-side C# scripting, responsiveness, cross-browser support, and accessing web services. Silverlight allows for rich media, 3D graphics, printing support, and accessing data via common protocols or ADO.NET objects. It also describes how to set up a Silverlight project, create an application manifest, and debug settings.

1. The Basics

2.  Basics of Silverlight
• Features
• Advantages
• Architecture
• Project Settings
• Out of Browser

3.  XAML overview
 Dependency Properties
 Change Notification
 Silverlight and Web Services
 RIA Services
 Demos

4. Regular Web Application
VS
Web Application Using Silverlight

6.  Replacement of Flash/Javascript/HTML
 Client side scripting possible in C#
 Responsiveness that can compete with
desktop applications
 Cross browser/platform
 Low bandwidth
 Mobile
 Stateful Client

7.  Printing/Webcam/Mic Support
 Notification Support
 Streaming
 Deep Zoom
 Media Format Extensibility
 3D Graphics
 Access data with common protocols like
SOAP, JSON, XML, and REST

8.  Access DB directly
 Support ADO.NET objects – DataTable,
DataSet etc…
 Access server side code directly

11.  Demo

12.  Compiled XAML and code behind
 Application Manifest
 Other assemblies

13.  Demo

14.  Reduce xap size by using application
library caching
 Enable running application out of the
browser
 Require elevated trust when running in
browser
 Generate Silverlight manifest file
 Debug settings

15.  Demo

16.  Silverlight Application
 Silverlight Class Library
 Silverlight Business Application
 Silverlight Navigation Application
 WCF RIA Services Class Library