- A Silverlight canvas can be nested within another canvas.
- Silverlight includes a WCF (Indigo) stack for some really cool networking (and data transactions). This is particularly cool when you remember that Silverlight is cross-browser and cross-platform (meaning you can now use a WCF stack for data communications within your Silverlight application from Safari on a Mac. Yeah, that’s what I said!
- In Visual Studio, press F6 to refresh or “force sync” of your codebehind to your other resource files.
- You can set properties of an object in Silverlight either modifying the .XAML directly, or programatically (using Javascript in 1.0 and adding managed code (C#, etc.) in 1.1 by referencing the same properties in both (no javascript funkaliciousness where things are called one thing in the .HTML and another in the .js).
- You can download Silverlight 1.0 from www.Silverlight.net and 1.1 alpha from MSDN.
Day 2, Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2; DEV22)
May 1, 2007