Martha RotterMicrosoft IrelandDeveloper & Platform Group

Silverlight 2 Deepdive

Silverlight Roadmap:

• Silverlight V1 Shipped Q307

• Silverlight V2• March 5th Beta 1 (non-commercial go-live)• Q208: Beta 2 (go live)

• Tools• Expression Suite and Visual Studio updates

for all public Silverlight releases• Visual Studio Designer support (Cider) later

this year

Silverlight 2 Runtime Features

* New in Silverlight 2

.NET Support*C# and VB.NET*

LINQ*XML APIs*Generics*HTML Integration*

JSON SerializerLocal storage*Crypto APIs (AES)*Threading*

2D, GraphicsAudio, VideoAnimationsText, Text Input*Controls*Layout*Styles/Templates*Data Binding*Networking

HTTP/S and Sockets*

Controls

Layout

• Layout containers• Canvas, Grid, StackPanel, Border

• Layout properties• Width, MinWidth, MaxWidth,

ActualWidth• Height, MinHeight, MaxHeight,

ActualHeight• Margin and Padding

• Layout extensibility

User Controls in Silverlight

• User Controls• Most common way to build reusable

components• Derivative of

System.Windows.Controls.Control base class (like TextBox control)• Acts as generic container of other

controls

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DLR

Tools

Resources

www.silverlight.net– Tutorials– Blogs– Hands-On Labs– Code!

http://silverlight.net/blogs/silverlightcommunity/

http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/http://blogs.msdn.com/martharotter

E-mail me: martharo@microsoft.com

Martha RotterMicrosoft IrelandDeveloper & Platform Group

martharo@microsoft.com

http://blogs.msdn.com/martharotter

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