silverlight

[vinnie]

Hi young folk, and i'm learning to work with ASP.net and yesterday I
was talking to a friend in regards a good book to buy for learning
CSS. With surprise he told me that Microsoft has released the Flash
competitor that integrates perfectly with ASP.Net, called
Silverlight.

Surfing for Silverlight on the Microsoft websiate, i found also
Microsoft Blend Express: now, since i'm kind of confused, i was
wondering if someone could give an indication of the difference
between Silverlight and Blend.

Thanks a lot,
Vinnie

 

[Martin CLAVREUIL]

hi vinnie,

Silverlight is the technology, Expression Blend is one of the software
to create silverlight projects. Menu 'file', 'new projet', 'silverlight
application' (there are 3 types of them).

Hope it helps

 

[Andrew P.]

Expression Blend is mainly to be used by the graphic designers, while Visual
Studio 2008 is to be used by the coders. Technically you don't necessarily
have to use either to develop Silverlight applications, but it would be
crazy to design a Silverlight application by writing the XAML tags yourself,
and inconvenient to write the code in Notepad.

I recently wrote a short introduction to Silverlight at
http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial226_Getting-started-using-Silverlight.html
if you're interested; even if you're not a coder you can't make something
out of it.