Working with the Silverlight Project Templates

Once you have installed the Silverlight 5 Tools, you will find a number of project templates have been added to Visual Studio's New Project dialog under the Silverlight category (as shown in Figure 1-1).

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Figure 1-1. The New Project window

Let's take a look at when and how you would use each of these project templates.

Silverlight Application

Silverlight Application is a basic project template for Silverlight projects; it simply includes a single blank view for the user interface. Back in Silverlight 2, this was the only project template available to create a Silverlight application, and it didn't ...

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