Thread: Creating Desktop apps with Silverlight

Implementation

To build a Silverlight 3 based app, you need either Visual studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1. In this implementation, we have used the latter. Now to add Silverlight 3:application building capability to this IDE, download and install Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio.

This will install the runtime and Silverlight 3 Beta SDK. We have used C# as programming language in this demo. Now start Visual Web Developer and create new 'Silverlight Application' project CSilverlightApplicationl '). You need a Web page to host this application, therefore Visual Web Developer Express 2008 prompts either creation of test page or a complete ASP.NET project. We created ASP.NET project named 'SilverlightApplication1.Web' in this implementation. From the solution explore open two files 'MainPage.xaml' and 'MainPage.xaml.cs'. . These are two files that define structure and logic of a Silverlight application.