Hour 4. Learning Silverlight Basics

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding Silverlight

• Silverlight coding fundamentals

• Exploring Silverlight controls

• Understanding data binding

Microsoft Silverlight is one of the two application frameworks for Windows Phone. Silverlight has established itself in the industry as a rich and dynamic platform for a variety of applications. In this hour, you take a look at Silverlight for Windows Phone and explore how to build applications using it.

Understanding Silverlight

Silverlight is a cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework. Originally targeted toward Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Silverlight functioned as a browser plug-in, which provided a subset of the .NET common language ...

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