Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform browser plug-in to create Rich Internet Applications with support for vector and bitmap graphics, animation, and media playback. Silverlight applications consist of two main parts, the UI declaration using XAML and the program code. Silverlight is a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation available in the .NET Framework 3.0.
Mobile support has also been announced, but currently Microsoft hasn't released any specifics.
Supported web servers must be able to deliver .html, .js, .xaml, .zip and .dll (Silverlight 2.0) files along with any desired media assets. This includes Apache, Microsoft IIS, and other web servers.
Silverlight 1.0 and the next release, currently numbered 2.0, share similarities in terms of using XAML as the declarative markup language, but differ vastly in their programming model.
The minimum requirement to develop Silverlight 1.0 applications is a text editor. Silverlight 2.0 runs managed code which must first be compiled. Free .NET compilers are available in the .NET Framework SDK. However, there are many tools for both designers and developers available on the Windows platform.
Please note that while XAML is case-sensitive, JavaScript used to script Silverlight 1.0 is not. This means you will have to make the decision whether to use JavaScript style camel-casing on method and property names (object.theMethod) or .NET style Pascal-casing (object.TheMethod). If you intend to port your Silverlight 1.0 application to 2.0, you may wish to use Pascal-casing to remove one extra step.
Our samples use Pascal-casing as this is the format used in the Silverlight SDK documentation method signatures (but not examples!) and this is what you'll see in Silverlight 2.0.
Related information on the web is listed below.
Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Copyright Policy - Job Openings