Summary
Good starter on Silverlight V1.1 in an article that one in the CodeProject.com competition, from a person who like flash that now loves Silverlight! It is a must read!
Details
Article includes a demo app that calls a web server to query Flickr for images using an RSS feed and show the images in a scrollabel panel where the user can select an image to be viewed with the ability to size and rotate images along with paging.
Topics include:
- Getting Started with Silverlight V1.1 and VS 2008 - Shows how to start a Silverlight Project
- Page.xaml - Exploring that makes up the xaml and code behind
- TestPage.html - Exploring what goes into hooking up Silverlight / the generated required JavaScript
- What can you do with SIlverlight 1.1 - short overview
- Overview of the including demo application and its construction
- Working with XML and/or Web services
- Building Dynamic User Interfaces wtih Silverlight - Including Custom Controls
- Interaction between HTML and Managed Code - ways to communicate with the page hosting the Silverlight object
- Sample showing how to implement an uploader/downloader for files
Be sure to drop by Sacha Barber website and view other articles he has posted on Code Project!