Summary
This Drill introduces basic Silverlight activities such as creating a simple control, layout and formatting text, and using brushes. It also covers drawing 2-D shapes, using animation and transformations, and MediaElement and VideoBrush.
Audience
This Drill is for developers who want to learn the basic skills needed to use Silverlight, Microsoft’s new cross-platform technology for developing rich, interactive applications on the Web.
What you'll learn
You’ll learn the basic skills needed to use Silverlight technology. These include creating simple controls and layout, formatting text, and using brushes to paint the interface. You’ll also learn how to draw 2-D shapes, use animation and transformations, and how to use MediaElement and VideoBrush.
What you need to know
We assume that you’re already familiar with programming concepts and that you’ve used Visual Studio. You’ll also need to be comfortable with writing HTML, XAML, and JavaScript.