- Silverlight is a browser plugin that allows for rich interactive applications and media experiences across browsers and operating systems. - It uses XAML and .NET languages like C# for development, providing a familiar environment for building rich GUI applications. - A demo showed how Silverlight can be used to build interactive experiences like photo editors and financial charts that run across platforms.

2. Presentation Overview What is Silverlight? How does it relate to other client-side technologies? How important is it? Silverlight app development walk-through

3. What is Silverlight? One word definition: Flash Browser plug-in: cross-browser, cross-platform Use case today: Animated ads, Video Use case tomorrow: Applications (Flex) Benefits: Adds functionality + write-once-run-everywhere Why Silverlight not Flash? More words: Flash + .NET More words: WPF-subset + .NET-subset

4. This is a big deal Once-every-20-years event Existing client-side web technology has reached the peak of its life-cycle Fresh start of a new client GUI technology Web is where the action is

5. Comparing client platforms HTML / CSS / JavaScript / AJAX Desktop: Win16 Win32 WinForms WPF Silverlight Flash / Flex Web:

6. Competing technologies Desktop based “smart clients” WPF on high end 3D, Hardware acceleration WinForms: (Mature, proven) Web-based: ASP.NET - HTML + CSS ASP.NET - HTML + CSS + AJAX Adobe Flash / Flex Desktop-web hybrid (?): Adobe AIR

7. Demo – Yahoo Finance Charts

8. Demo – Picnik.com Photo Editor

9. Feature Details

10. WPF / Silverlight – Positives: Vector based vs. pixel based Scalable – Looks good at multiple resolutions XAML – Similar to HTML Declarative Designers and programmers work in parallel Rich customization is possible in a well-designed way

11. WPF - Negatives Windows only Requires 50 / 200 MB .NET 3.x runtime Steep learning curve

12. Versions of Silverlight 1.0 RTM in Sept. 2007 Code behind – JavaScript only 1.1 / 2.0 Alpha introduced in Spring 2007. Beta at MIX08 in March 2008. Code behind - .NET languages C#, etc. Partial .NET class library

13. Silverlight - Positives Lightweight at 4-6 MB, quick download .NET based Write in C# or VB.NET Use familiar class libraries Rich state-of-the-art GUI Vector based All types of content handled uniformly Secure - sandboxed

14. Demo: Silverlight Airlines

15. Demo: MS Download Center

16. Demo: 3 rd Party Control Vendor

17. Silverlight 2.0 Features 2D, Graphics Audio, Video Animations Text, Text Input Controls Layout Styles/Templates Data Binding Networking HTTP/S and Sockets .NET Support C# and VB.NET LINQ XML APIs Generics HTML Integration JSON Serializer Local storage Threading

18. Silverlight Development Walk-through

19. Silverlight Tools Expression Blend : GUI builder Graphic designers Visual Studio 2008: Includes a more limited GUI builder Programmers Silverlight chainer

20. Making silverlight small application Open visual studio 2008. File + new + project

21. New project

22. Silverlight application

23. Silverlight application Add a new web to the solution for hosting the control. options:- Project type :- web site. Web application project. Name:- Dynamically generates an html test page to host silverlight with in this project.

24. Making silverlight application

25. Set as start page

26. Simple silverlight code

27. Event handling

28. Event handling code

29. Event handling

30. Output of the silverlight application

31. Thank you.