Learn Silverlight 2 series (1): Create a basic Silverlight application

Overview

The Silverlight 2 Beta 1 release, both from runtime and tools, has brought us a lot of surprises, such as support for framework language visual Basic, Visual C #, IronRuby, IronPython, for JSON, WEB A new set of features such as Service, WCF, and sockets support. The "Step by Step Silverlight 2 Series" article takes you fast into Silverlight 2 development.

This article creates a basic Silverlight 2 application for the first article in the series, not exception, starting with the simplest Hello Word.

Establish a project

After you install Silverlight 2 Beta 1, open VS2008, open the New Project dialog box, and see the Silverlight Application project template.

Silverlight applications are not able to run independently, and the dialog box that pops up allows us to choose to create a asp.net Web site or Web application project to host the Silverlight application.

Here we choose to create a Web application project that creates the finished project structure as follows: