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Switching Gears Into Silverlight

   Added by Kevin Sweeney
  Published Thu 18/Oct/2007
  Keywords:

Silverlight, Blend, XAML, C#


  Category:

fi


Support for Flash & Flex developers switching over into Microsoft's Silverlight platform has been hard to come by. This entry will give an overview of the Silverlight development environment for beginners. Users will walk away with a knowledge of building a simple video player and how Microsoft's XAML and C# languages parallel Adobe's MXML and Actionscript 3.

Users will need to download the following software:

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

2. Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008

3. Expression Blend 2 September Preview

4. Silverlight 1.1+ Plugin

Download:
Complete Project Files

PS: the audio is a "tad" low, so turn up your volume.

1. pete     London,   Thu  18/Oct/2007
Audio is REAL low on this
2. pete     London,   Thu  18/Oct/2007
PS - love the audio effects of snooker being played in the backgournd :-)
3. Rob Calvert     Ontario Canada,   Thu  18/Oct/2007
I absolutely love that the testing is being done in FireFox!
4. Kevin     New York,   Thu  18/Oct/2007
Yeah, sorry about the sound. I was playing pool while I was recording and coding this bad boy...
5. Simon Shand     Worthing, UK,   Fri  19/Oct/2007
Wow cool :D Hey Kevin you're mentioned on the FWA! Woo! Go dude!
6. Cam Marshall     Kelowna, BC Canada,   Fri  19/Oct/2007
Congrats on the FWA mention, nice tut...
7. Brian Collins     Uppsala, Sweden,   Sun  21/Oct/2007
What was your reason for switching from Adobe Flash & Flex to to Silverlight?
8. Kevin     New York,   Sun  21/Oct/2007
Hi Brian,
You make it sound as though I'm completely jumping ship! I'm not switching, nor is Fi. We simply believe in using the right tools for the job; whether that turns out to be Silverlight, Flash, HTML, or a hybrid of all three. In order for us to make an informed decision though, we need to know what those programs are capable of, which is why I have been experimenting with Silverlight (because it is so new and nobody else here has touched it either).
9. DHM     tribeca,   Mon  22/Oct/2007
Kev, I really liked this. What do people think of silverlight so far? The pros and cons?
10. snoop dogg     sweden,   Fri  26/Oct/2007
Your blog sucks. You've had a silverlight entry up for a week.
11. JGP     Chicago, IL,   Fri  26/Oct/2007
@Kevin:

I like your approach on not jumping ship. I agree that ever project might call for a different tool. Whether it be Flash, Silverlight, XHTML, etc.etc.
12. KC Hunter     Baltimore, MD,   Fri  2/Nov/2007
The blog doesn't suck btw. It's awesome.

However, I don't see much of a point in using Sliverlight right now. Adobe's matching everything they're doing and there doesn't seem to be any great advantages to spending the $$$ on a new system that is bound to have a variety of bugs (it is Microsoft afterall).

I'll wait a year or so before jumping into SL.
13. Lawrence     UK,   Fri  9/Nov/2007
Very cool! Can't believe I missed it!

I will look into Silverlight now, trouble is, we just have to wait till Microsoft rises their prices to compete with Adobe which will make my life harder... anyway, thanks for that it has been helpful.
14. Ozzy Osbourne     -,   Sat  22/Dec/2007
Silverligth sux!
15. ab     -,   Sun  30/Dec/2007
very cool
16. aaa     Btasil,   Tue  8/Jan/2008
A
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17. rbfigueira     -,   Wed  9/Jan/2008
All videos from this weblog are played with one great "flash player"!
There in any possibility to use that flash player in our website/blog with our own videos?
Thanks
18. Carl     -,   Thu  24/Jan/2008
As a .NET developer I warmly welcome this technology since it's so well integrated into the .Net development tools and languages. But what do you flash designers think about it? Is Blend sufficient for design and animation. Is Xaml understandable at all?
19. vinod     Chennai,   Thu  31/Jan/2008
Great tutorial!!
20. lenzdrummer     Hamburg,   Thu  12/Jun/2008
Here I see again that Silvelight is just big shit (microsoft will never be better than adobe).