Silverlight

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Silverlight

• Make the web shine

Mark Bennett Burmis Studio
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User Expectations Increasing

• Demanding richer interfaces
• Desktop-like performance
• Consistent experience

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Big Expectations Bigger Challenges
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Exceed Expectations

• Silverlight makes it simple

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The Development Challenges

• Cross browser support!!!

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The Development Challenges

• AJAX debugging
• Performance problems
• Bad designer / developer workflow
• Cant share assets between web and desktop

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Silverlight Makes It Simple

• Provides developers with
• Consistent platform
• Richer User Interfaces
• Better application performance
• Integrated designer developer workflow
• Professional development tools
• Shared assets between web and desktop

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Background

• What? How? Why?

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What Is Silverlight?

• Browser plug-in
• Similar usage scenarios to Adobe Flash
• lt10 sec download
• Provides animations, vector graphics, audio-video
  playback

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Under the hood

• Instance of the .NET Compact Framework
• Subset of Windows Presentation Framework
• Includes many standard libraries (LINQ,
  DataBinding, Networking)

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Making It Simple
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Consistent Platform

• Works on all major browsers

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Consistent Platform

• Works on Windows and Mac OS X
• Linux port arriving soon

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Consistent Platform

• Coming to Nokia and Windows Mobile phones

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Richer User Interfaces

• New interface paradigm
• Vector based and resolution independent
• Scales to client hardware

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Richer User Interfaces

• Real graphical primitives for the web (circles,
  polygons, paths)
• Animation
• Video

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Richer User Interfaces

• Calendar
• TextBox (w/ Watermark)
• Sliders
• Buttons
• Lists
• Lots more!

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Demo Time

• No more slides!

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Info

• silverlight.net
• blog.burmis.ca

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Thank-you!