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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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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