Microsoft Silverlight 3, A Beginner's Guide by Shannon Horn

By Shannon Horn

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This hands-on consultant prepares software program builders to create next-generation net and home windows functions utilizing Microsoft Silverlight--the new know-how that extends the .NET Framework to the customer. The booklet covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite applied sciences. you are going to learn how to use Silverlight to circulation multimedia content material around the internet, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight purposes, and enforce security.

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Once the plug-in is installed, the Silverlight control will be downloaded and executed. Upon subsequent requests to run the Silverlight control, the control will instantiate on the user’s machine and then requests for resources from the web server will only be made manually, when necessary. Silverlight Versions Silverlight is currently available in version 3. 0 was released in 2007, supports Windows Media Services, and is used to create rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using JavaScript. 1 was released in beta.

1 on Windows Vista. Figure 1-10 A Silverlight 3 application in Safari 3 on Windows Vista 17 18 Microsoft Silverlight 3: A Beginner’s Guide Opera Silverlight 3 is not officially supported by the Opera browser. As a result, Silverlight applications may sporadically function in Opera even in Silverlight 3. Conclusion Microsoft has, once again, delivered a new technology that is already, even in its infancy, taking the industry by storm. NET Framework. Silverlight is a downloadable plug-in that is optimized for the display of graphics, animations, and media and is platform and browser agnostic.

However, the sandbox does limit Silverlight’s ability to directly interact with the host operating system and perform direct I/O functionality. Silverlight 3 extends some of the client-side I/O interaction functionality by including a Save As dialog and the ability for users to opt to run a Silverlight application as an out-of-browser (OOB) application. Using the Save As dialog and creating OOB applications are discussed in later chapters. The powers and limitations of Silverlight and WPF are really a result of the environment in which each is designed to perform.

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