Playing with Microsoft Silverlight
· 2007-05-20 22:06 by Thijs Kroesbergen for Brokenwire.NET
This weekend I spend some time playing with Microsoft’s “Flash-Killer” named Silverlight.
It’s very interesting to see how they brought the .NET CLR to the browser!
With only my knowledge of the .NET framework, C# and a bit of basic knowledge of Windows and Web programming I could easily create a small app!
I wrapped up an (unfinished!) attempt to mimic my Pong-Clock
You should be able to see it here (Warning: Pre-alpha 0-quality demo!)
I hope to write a bit more about this soon…
But if you’re interested in seeing more about silverlight yourself you can visit the Silverlight website
To create your own “hello world” application; you need the following ingredients:
- Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (Runtime to be able to “see” the applets)
- Visual Studio Orcas (The next version of visual studio, Beta available as virtual PC or install-it-yourself ISO)
- Silverlight tools for Orcas (to create and build Silverlight projects with Visual Studio)
- Expression Blend 2 may preview (to edit your XAML)
- ASP.Net futures (ASP.Net control to embed Silverlight into ASP.NET pages)
Oh and I almost forgot about the coolest thing: Silverlight runs cross-browser (IE – Firefox – Opera – Safari) and cross-platform (Windows – Mac). I also heard some rumours about a linux version.
Using Microsoft Virtual Earth combined with ASP.NET AJAX Popfly