August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
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A Taste of Silverlight 1.1
Microsoft recently announced the availability of an alpha (think pre-CTP) version of Silverlight 1.1. This new version allows you to write your logic in .NET-compliant languages, including C#, Visual Basic, and IronPython. This new version supports a mini version of .NET. This means Silverlight 1.1 is still cross-platform and cross-browser and still uses a small runtime component.
Using Silverlight 1.1 is very similar to Silverlight 1.0. Hosting Silverlight in HTML still requires the Silverlight.js, but you specify the 0.95 version to specify Silverlight 1.1, as shown in Example E-20.
Example E-20. Silverlight 1.1 hosting
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Hello Silverlight 1.1</title>
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="silverlight.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<div id="theHost">
<script type="text/JavaScript">
Sys.Silverlight.createObject(
"Scene.xaml", // Url to the Xaml File
document.getElementById("theHost"), // The Host element
"SilverlightControl", // Silverlight Object Name
{ // Properties object
width: "400", // Width of the Host
height: "400", // Height of the Host
version: "0.95" // Silverlight Plug-in
// Version
},
{} // Event to wire
// (onLoad and onError)
);
</script>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>Creating your XAML is also similar to Silverlight 1.0, except that
you can specify the class that controls your particular XAML document.
You specify the class by using the x:Class attribute of the root Canvas. This attribute ...
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