Develop a simple Silverlight 2 application

Once the preparations are ready, you can begin the development of the Silverlight 2 application.

Start VS2008, new project, you can see "Silverlight" Under Project type, select Silverlight, and in the template on the right you can see the "Installed templates" lists "Silverlight Application" and " Silverlight Class Library "Two types of templates.

Select the Silverlight application template, and the following dialog box appears:

Since the Silverlight application is currently unable to run alone, it must be embedded inside the page, starting it with the OBJECT tag element, so when creating the "Silverlight application", VS will prompt you to choose a way to run the Sliverlight program. If you choose Add a new web to the solution for hosting, you need to create a Web site: You can either create a Web site or create a Web application type project, as shown in the following illustration: