Developing Rich Web Applications with Silverlight Mike Ormond Developer & Platform Group...

Developing Rich Web Applications with SilverlightMike OrmondDeveloper & Platform GroupMicrosoft LtdMike.Ormond@microsoft.comhttp://mikeo.co.uk

Introduction

Microsoft UX Technologies

Various criteria for comparison“Richness” of user experience“Reach” of applications that are builtDepth of platform integrationDevelopment experience

– Developer & non-developer tooling, programming model, 3rd party controls, etc.

Status & maturity of technology

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of .NET for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences & rich interactive applications for the Web.

A richer web with Silverlight

Timeline & Packaging

TimelineV1.0 Released September 2007, V1.1 in Alpha (timing and some functionality TBD)Moonlight – timing TBD (Novell)

PackagingBrowser plug-in, little dependency on other s/w

Silverlight V1.0 and V1.1

SilverlightV1.1

SilverlightV1.0

V1.1 will add .NET to V1.0CoreCLRIndependent subset of the .NET Framework

Installing Silverlight

Developing

Declarative Development - XAML

eXtensible Application Markup Language

XAML usageCompiled to produce executable codeDynamically loaded (parsed or pre-parsed)

Calculator c = new Calculator();Multiply m = new Multiply();m.P1 = 10;m.P2 = 20;c.Operations.Add(m)

Code

<Calculator> <Operations> <Multiply P1=“10” P2=“20”/></Operations></Calculator>

XAML

Core UI Capabilities

Vector Based Graphics2D graphicsPrimitives (ellipse, rectangle, path etc)Composition engineTransformsBrushesTextInk

Animation systemMedia

VideoAudio

Core UI Capabilities

Silverlight Programming Model

Silverlight, Documents and DOMs

Silverlight “Hello World”

Silverlight Architecture

Common Programming Scenarios

Working with StoryboardsUsing the Downloader classRunning in full screen modeCalling backend servicesSwitching XAML pagesDynamically creating content

Common Programming Scenarios

Resources

www.silverlight.net

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