Martha Rotter

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Silverlight 2 Deepdive

• Martha Rotter
• Microsoft Ireland
• Developer Platform Group

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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

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Silverlight 2 Runtime Features

• 2D, Graphics
• Audio, Video
• Animations
• Text, Text Input
• Controls
• Layout
• Styles/Templates
• Data Binding
• Networking
• HTTP/S and Sockets

• .NET Support
• C and VB.NET
• LINQ
• XML APIs
• Generics
• HTML Integration
• JSON Serializer
• Local storage
• Crypto APIs (AES)
• Threading

New in Silverlight 2
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Controls
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Layout

• Layout containers
• Canvas, Grid, StackPanel, Border
• Layout properties
• Width, MinWidth, MaxWidth, ActualWidth
• Height, MinHeight, MaxHeight, ActualHeight
• Margin and Padding
• Layout extensibility

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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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DeepZoom
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DLR
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Tools
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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_at_microsoft.com

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Thanks!Please Let Us Know What You Think!

• Martha Rotter
• Microsoft Ireland
• Developer Platform Group
• martharo_at_microsoft.com
• http//blogs.msdn.com/martharotter

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