14.2. Silverlight in the Real World

An impressive example of a Silverlight application is Descry: A Website Named Desire, which was created for the Mix conference. This web site illustrates the web site development process (see Figure 14-1) and is available online at www.visitmix.com/labs/descry/awebsitenameddesire/.

Figure 14.1. Descry example project from Mix team w(www.visitmix.com/labs/descry/awebsitenameddesire/)

One of the earliest but still very impressive uses of Silverlight is on the Hard Rock's memorabilia page. If you haven't seen it, go to it now at http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/. The page shows rock memorabilia items owned by ...

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