Life Cycle Silverlight Application 4.0

The page life cycle of Silver light Application . The whole process is bellow. A User requests a Web page that hosts the Silverlight plug-in. If the correct version of Silverlight has been installed, the Web browser loads the Silverlight plug-in and creates the Silverlight content region. The plug-in then begins downloading your .xap file. The plug-in extract the contents of the .xap file and read the AppManifest.xaml file from the XAP to determine the assemblies your application uses.  The plug-in loads the Silverlight...

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Difference between WPF and SilverLight

WPF:- WPF is for desktop applications- you create an .exe file when you build WPF applications. To run a WPF exe requires you to have Framework 3 or higher on your pc. Silver light:-  Silverlight is on the web. What you create is an application that can be hosted either in an html page or an asp.net page. To watch it from your browser it requires to have installed in your browser the silverlight plugin. Silverlight uses very fewer libraries than WPF does, and that's pretty logical because silverlight's CLR is in the plugin...

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Database(CRUD operations ) with ASP.NET Web Service in Silverlight

This is the step-by-step tutorial for how to do database operations (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) with ASP.NET web service (asmx) in Silverlight 2 beta 1. A few people asked me how to do database operations (CRUD) in Silverlight 2 (beta1). As I have some experiences in using Astoria in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, I was thinking to use Astoria service in Silverlight...

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How can I host a Silverlight Application?

When you create a Silverlight project, it asks you to create a Web Application project. This project is responsible for hosting your XAP file. Generally Silverlight application doesn’t require any server to host it to run, but if you are planning to host it in web you must need a web server for that. Once you publish your Web Application to host in IIS,...

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What is XAML & XAP?

What is XAML file? XAML stands for eXtended Application Markup Language. It is nothing but an XML file which is used to declaratively create the User Interface of the Silverlight or WPF applications. This XAML file generally rendered by the Silverlight plugin and displayed inside the browser window. When you compile your projects which includes XAML pages, those...

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What are the Prerequisite to create a new Silverlight Application?

Before starting with the Silverlight application development be sure you have all the necessary softwares installed in your PC. If you don’t have then follow the steps mentioned in Microsoft Silverlight Site (http://silverlight.net/getstarted/) to download & install the following items in your development environment: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for Silverlight 3 application development or Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight 3 & Silverlight 4 application development Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Silverlight...

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About Silverlight

What is Silverlight? Silverlight is a powerful cross-browser & cross-platform technology for building the next generation web experience & rich internet applications for the web. You can run Silverlight in most of all the popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. Silverlight can run in various devices and operating systems like Windows, Apple Mac OS-X and Windows Phone 7. Using Silverlight you can create rich, visually stunning web applications like flash. Also you can create smooth animations...

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