Silverlight Technology

Table of Contents

1. What is Silverlight Technology?2. Silverlight Overview. 2.1 How it works 2.2 Silverlight development tools3. Benefits of using Silverlight.4. Silverlight Toolkit Controls Overview.5. Data Binding in Silverlight.

What is Silverlight?

• Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-platform cross-browser plug-in for delivering rich interactive applications for the web. It offer a programming model that is familiar to web developers, Silverlight is programmed using a text bases mark-up language format and a JavaScript running inside browser`s script engine. With Silverlight helps building application that won’t be possible using only AJAX and HTML, this includes applications witch integrate media, animation and text. Silverlight applications are created using a combination of Expression Studio (Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Expression Encoder) and Visual Studio

Silverlight Overview

How does silverlight work?• Rich Internet Application Architecture Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) combine the maturity, stability and scalability of

service orientation with state of the art display technology to create the next wave of web based distributed applications. RIA is typically delivered either by way of a site-specific browser, via a browser plug-in. Adobe Flash, Java and Microsoft Silverlight are currently the three top frameworks that apply RIA.

• Silverlight Application Architecture• Silverlight architecture is based on eXtensible Application Markup Language

(XAML) which is XML based that what makes Silverlight cross-platform cross-browser plug-in. XAML provide a unified way to declare graphics, media, animation, text and layout.

Silverlight Overview

• Silverlight development tools

Silverlight applications are created using a combination of Expression Studio (Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Expression Encoder) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or later. Although it’s not necessary to use all these tools, it’s recommended to use it all to get the best of Silverlight. The following table describes the usage of each of these applications.

Silverlight Overview

Name Logo Usaged Users

Microsoft Visual Studio Carrying out programming work in Silverlight objects as well as business logic.

Developers

Microsoft Expression Blend Blending XAML objects with C# codes to handle events on these objects as well as Manipulating XAML objects properties i.e. size, location, background color...etc

Developers/Designers

Microsoft Expression Design

Designing complex XAML objects to be exported to Expression Blend as XAML.

Designers

Microsoft Expression Encoder

Encoding Videos and media into Silverlight.

Designers

Benefits of using Silverlight.

• Enables Developers to easily create and deliver great user interface without the need of learning another technologies « ex. Flash ».

• End users appreciate Silverlight performance and high-quality. • Data visualization are more undestandable by end users and silverlight toolkit provides a

collection of controls that help developers to design what they need• Silverlight teachnology enhances existing AJAX-Based application’s performance • Silverlight delivers a good features and controls for designing a powerful rich reporting and

charting • Silverlight most benefit is visuals , it makes website`s design is more interactive for end users

to deal with and more easy for developers to design.

Silevrlight Toolkit Overview

• AutoComplete Box

• Dockpanel

• Charting

• Drag and Drop

Silevrlight Toolkit Overview

• Rating

• Dockpanel

• Charting

• Drag and Drop