Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed

Chapter 1. Getting Started

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Embedding the Silverlight Control Manually
• Letting Silverlight.js Handle the Dirty Work
• Understanding Your Hosting Options
• Interacting with the Silverlight Control Programmatically

Despite all the wonderful things you can say about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I think most people doing a lot of web-based development would agree that they form a pretty poor environment for developing modern sites and applications. If you care about your content working on most web browsers (or even just Internet Explorer and Firefox), accommodating their differences can be maddening. Many techniques and JavaScript libraries have been developed and shared over the years that can reduce this frustration, but none of them ...