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5 replies. Latest Post by paru on July 3, 2009.
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goodway
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07-03-2009 3:41 AM |
Hello,
Silverlight needs programming knowledge to be learned???I mean a graphic designer who is used to work on Golive and Flash (basic flash) can learn silverlight or he needs to know Dot Net as a prerequisite.
Thank you
alok572
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07-03-2009 3:54 AM |
Hi,
It is not required for you to know .Net to design any application but it will be a more advantage for you. For designing purposes, you can use microsoft's expression blende.
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Roet
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07-03-2009 4:06 AM |
If you want a real good Silverlight application with rich functionality and dynamic content, you really need basic programming skills.
For design only, Blend is perfect and a Flash designer would probably like it.
But you still need a programmer, or the designer needs to have some basic knowledge of programming. But good designers with good programming skills are very rare.
koyot3
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07-03-2009 4:29 AM |
you have two parts in a silverlight application
-design side (using XAML language like XML) : you can learn xaml to develop your interface or you can use Expression Blend which can generate automaticaly the code during you are creating your page.xaml
- code-behind side (C# or VB) : this part needs basics skills in programmation to developp your application.
You can find on microsoft website Silverlight Coach and C# Coach to learn quickly knowledge to begijn with silverlight
Hope this help
baskarg83
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07-03-2009 5:48 AM |
Basically the Silverlight is for creating a Rich Internet Applicatin, which is mixed roles of designer and developers.
here the microsoft introduce a Expression Blend for designer which provides a XAML code automaticaly. and
for programmer you have to write a C# program as a code-behind file. so if you want to work on silverlight you need basic of flash for designer and some .NET
knowledge to write a C# code behind file.
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paru
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07-03-2009 3:33 PM |
Silverlight is a subset of wpf or wpf/e
It has two editor(IDE):
1. Visual Studio 2. Expression Blend(a part of expression studio)
If you are a designer as such you will require to know only XAML (designer code). But still if you are looking forward for full flugged applicatin you must know C#
Silverlight 1.0- unmanaged code(javascript)
Silverlight 1.1 beta and silverlight 2.0- introduces C# (managed code)
If you know javscript i guess you can do almost everything that C# can do :)
Expressin Blend you to design your page without actual coding, so you can escape xaml... but again when you go for code behind (event handling, dynamic binding etc...) you cannot escpe C#. Itis always according to your requirement :)
Beginning Silverlight