Microsoft SilverLight

Discussion in 'Silverlight' started by Bruce, May 1, 2007.

  1. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    This is really cool

    "Microsoft® Silverlight? is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight also supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on MacOS or Windows. Designers and developers can download Visual Studio codename ?Orcas? Beta1 and Expression Blend2 May Preview today and start creating Silverlight applications to light up the Web of tomorrow."
    Check out this video demo from Scott Guthrie http://www.asp.net/silverlight/default.aspx?tabid=62






    Bruce

    DiscountASP.NET
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  2. nice....when will we be able to host silverlight beta apps ????? or will we need to wait forit to be released??
     
  3. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    We are still testing this but I think it needs .NET framework 3.5 beta installed. I'll post more once we find out.

    Bruce

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  5. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    hey erwinroots,

    thanks for the posting!!

    You beat us to it :)

    We have successfully tested Silverlight's on our server but we haven't posted.



    Bruce

    DiscountASP.NET
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  6. I believe the.NET framework 3.5 beta is necessary for the asp.net and silverlight integration as the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha samples work on my computer but not when deployed to discountasp.net.
     
  7. Hi,


    Glad to see DASP is embracing SilverLight. I hope to renovate my site to include some of its features.


    From an MSDN roadshow earlier this month, a few notes:


    SilverLight is what was WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). It's a subset of the full WPF, so it doesn't have the same hardware requirements - WPF requires at least a 64 MB GPU; SL should work on any machine capable of running a modern browser.


    SilverLight v1.0 is out now; v1.1 is in beta. Some of the SL features being mentioned will only be included in v1.1 and later (actually, it got a little blurred in the presentation which features were in which version - so keep this in mind).


    SL v1.0 has a small (Flash-like) download of 1.1 MB to 5 MB for all SL features (MS goal to get DL under 15 seconds). Now for XP, Vista and Mac (Penguin might appear in later releases).


    XAML is used to describe the SL you include in your browser apps. There is no WYSIWYG XAML editor in VS 2005, but there is in MS Expression (there are several versions, so check out which is best for you - Looks like MS will make its money on SL tools).


    Things in SL take place on a 'Canvas.' Canvas calls function (any named thing in the XAML tree).


    SL utilizes vector graphics, sographics scaleup and down without pixalation.


    You'll need ORCAS to play with SL v1.1


    BRN..
     

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