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3 replies. Latest Post by y_makram on July 3, 2007.
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peels
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07-02-2007 1:15 PM |
I want to create a silverlight app / open up and see a sample file, I'm a designer using a PC. I've downloaded Blend May Preview version as well as the Media Encoder Preview. I've also downloaded and installed both the Silverlight plugins.
On the Microsoft site it says
"For documentation, samples and add-ins, also download the SDK's.
Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta Software Development Kit (SDK)
Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Software Development Kit (SDK) "
I've now downloaded these but I have just read that I have to download "Microsoft Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 1 " (which are 8 files to download) in order to open up the SDK sample files.
Is it me or is this just a bit too long winded when all I want to do is download any Silverlight sample file and see how it is composed / put together in whichever application - ideally Blend.
sorry if this is a silly question to ask. Is not opening up one of the tutorial files in Blend the same as opening up a Silverlight app except the silverlight app is a different file format?
y_makram
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07-03-2007 4:26 AM |
You can actually open projects from Blend2. You need Visual Studio for features like intellisense needed by developers. Another option to see Silverlight in action is to download Microsoft Expression Encoder http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=encoder . Then import a video into it, select output tab on the right and Under "Job Output", select a template, then click Encode. Expression Studio will generate a cool media player for you based on the selected template, complete with source code.
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07-03-2007 6:03 AM |
Hi,
Will try this out. I just wanted to open up a sample Silverlight app and see it working and wanted to know whether the tutorial files that come with Blend May Preview can be / are Slverlight applications.
What I ideally wanted to do was to create a HTML page where I could display a Silverlight app as well as a Flash app (banner) has anyone seen an example of this? Please post the link!
07-03-2007 6:26 AM |
Including a Silverlight, Flash in the same page is not a problem at all. Just add the flash object tag in the default.html page that comes with the samples. The following html code is a modified default.html of the 1.0 clock example. So you will not need VS to do these modifications, you can use any text editor.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head> <title>Silverlight Clock</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/Silverlight.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="Default.html.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/Clock.js "></script></head><body style="background-image: url(assets/img/silverlight_dusk1_std_1024x768.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: #000000"> <div id="AgControl1Host" style="position:absolute;left:100px;top:50px;"> <script type="text/javascript"> createSilverlight(); </script> </div> <object width="550" height="400"> <param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf"> <embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400"> </embed> </object></body></html>