Getting familiar with Silverlight

Hello everyone,

Here is an quick overview from the things I did last week for the DMT subject. I started on 26aug with a research what I need to develop my Silverlight project. I ended up on the Silverlight website with a lot of usefull information on how to adopt this wonderfull technology.

Although I noticed a small issue, to use all the Silverlight functionality you need to install the Silverlight component for your browser. Just like Flash you get a notification that the Silverlight plugin in nessecary. When you don't want to install the plugin you cannot use the website. To overcome this the Silverlight website has alternative version so you not need the plugin. But the web-experience is not as rich as with the Silverlight plugin.

When I installed the plugin and downloaded the nessecary tools for my development environment (Windows Vista + SP2 and Visual Studio 2008 + SP1) I could get started. But where to start and how to do?

I followed the tutorials 'building a digg search client' on the blog website of ScottGu. The tutorial of 8 parts runs through the basic concepts of building a Silverlight application. Because the tutorials where based on the 2th version of Silverlight there where some issues of things that where obsolute in Silverlight 3. I overcome all problems and it took me about 3 hours to complete all the parts.

The result of my tutorial can be found here: http://labs.revusion.com/digg

References:
http://www.silverlight.net/
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu