Silverlight & .NET Framework – A Workshop

Microsoft Student Partners & Mathematics Colloquium

Presented By:Shubhanshu Mishra

What is Silverlight ?

Formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation WPF .

Microsoft Silverlight is a web application framework

Similar to Adobe Flash Cross Platform Cross Browser

Silverlight Overview

Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences Immersive media experiences & RIA Seamless, fast installation for end users Consistent experiences on Mac / Windows

Flexible programming model with collaborative tools

Integration with Web technologies Based on the .NET Framework Role specific tools for designers /

developers

Efficient, lower cost delivery, and more capable media

HD to Mobile w/ SMPTE VC-1 Broad media ecosystem Tools for live and on-demand publishing

Silverlight & The Web

HTML / JavaScrip

t

HTML / .NET

XAML / JavaScrip

t

XAML / .NET

Silverlight Developer Toolkit

Minimum Any Text EditorAny Web Server

Maximum Productivi

ty

Visual Studio 2008

Silverlight Extension

s for Visual Studio

Expression

Blend 3

ASP.NET

Futures CTP

Getting StartedInsight into Silverlight Components

Silverlight Components

2D Graphics

Animations

Input (mouse, keyboard, ink)

Media (WMV, WMA, MP3)

Imaging (JPEG, PNG)

Text

HTTP Downloader

XAML Parser

JavaScript DOM

Graphics and Animations in Silverlight

2D Graphics Standard shapes, masking and clipping Transformations: skew, rotate, scale, translate,

matrix Animation Basics

Animations change properties over time Support linear, discrete and spline animation Animatable property types:▪ Double, Color, Point

Animations and graphics are defined using XAML

Video and AnimationsAdvertisement OverlayXAML Slideshow

Silverlight JavaScript Basics Silverlight XAML elements are scriptable via

the browser script engine (JavaScript) Scriptable objects are obtained via findName

Scriptable objects (elements) can be controlled via properties and methods

Models JavaScript and HTML DOM interaction findName is equivalent to

document.getElementById() Supports tree walking via children collection

Position set using "Canvas.Top" and "Canvas.Left"Size can be scaled or set via Height/Width

Media

Media Features Video: WMV V7, V8, V9, VC-1 Audio: WMA V7, V8, V9 (standard), MP3 Multiple options for deploying media▪ HTTP progressive download▪ Integration with Windows Media Server

Extensive WMV ecosystem

Text

Glyphs Fixed text Full Unicode glyph rendering support Does not support layout (word/line breaking)

TextBlock Basic layout support▪ Left-aligned, English-based text wrapping

Support font encryption and compression V1 supports 64K Unicode Basic Multi-lingual Plane Post V1, increased language support

English日本語

ελληνικά

русский汉语

Downloader and CreateFromXAML

HTTP Downloader V1.0 supports HTTP gets (async and

sync) Provides download progress ZIP packaging Similar to XMLHTTP

CreateFromXAML Primary way in V1.0 to dynamically

create content Supports namescopes (for name

collisions)

Lets see the stuffDemos

Compatibility

C#VBPHP

Silverlight and Tools RoadmapSilverlight 1.0 Beta

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha

Silverlight 1.0

Silverlight 1.1 Beta

Silverlight 1.1

Silverlight 2

Silverlight 3

Expression Studio RTM

Expression Blend 2

CTP

Expression Media

Encoder RTM

Expression Web 2

Expression Blend 2Preview

Expression Studio 2

Expression Studio 3 Preview

Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2010

Beta

Sources to learn or Copy ;) http://

www.apurvalawale.com/silverlight.aspx http://

gallery.expression.microsoft.com/en-us/

What then for the Linux Developers

Moonlight is the project which is porting Silverlight plugin for Linux based systems . Its officially supported by Microsoft.

Mono is another project which is used for running .NET applications on Linux.

Resources

Silverlight Tools & SDKs: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/technical-resources/

Official Silverlight Website : www.silverlight.net Silverlight Apps:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/07/07/from-a-to-z-50-silverlight-applications.aspx

Community Site: http://silverlight.net Main Product Site: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight MSDN Centre: http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight Online Forums: http://silverlight.net/forums Online SDK: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/bb188266.aspx

Top Silverlight Blogs Tim Sneath: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims Mike Harsh: http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh Joe Stegman: http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman Laurence Moroney: http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext Ernie Booth: http://blogs.msdn.com/ebooth

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