Introduction and Prerequisites to this Silverlight demo

Silverlight is a promising web technology that has the advantage of providing a rich UI over the web while still maintaining the security restrictions on applications downloaded from the Internet. In other words, running this Silverlight demo from my website on your desktop is as safe as running an ASP webform on my website. The application does not gain any access to your desktop information, any more than a Javascript code on an ASP page can gain control of your PC.

The following articles explain in technical details the CLR security features in running Silverlight applications

1. http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2007/05/09/the-silverlight-security-model.aspx
2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc765416.aspx

In order to be able to view the Silverlight demos on my site you need to download and install the Silverlight 2 runtime http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Table Of Content

Chapter 1: Silverlight 2

• Essay 1: Data-Driven App A data-driven application using Silverlight and a webservice hosted on an ASP.NET 3.5 webform in C#
• Essay 2: Online Chat A demo for a simple Customer Service support online chat application

Chapter 2: ADO.NET

• Essay 1: Expand Query A data-driven application using Silverlight and ADO.NET Data Services hosted on an ASP.NET 3.5 webform in C#

Helpful External Links

• The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site
• Scott Guthrie's blog: Silverlight 2 End to End Tutorial: Building a Digg Search Client
• Styling with ControlTemplates Sample
• Tutorial "How Do I" Videos on Silverlight