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Chapter 1: Adding Silverlight to Your Web Development Toolkit
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The HTML tag is an object tag that specifies the data attribute and the type.
These elements signify that a Silverlight object is being created. The param
name=“source” tag contains the relative location of the .xap file that will
be run when the application starts.
Some of the other parameters contain values that specify where to get the
latest versions of Silverlight.
If all this looks too complicated for you, don’t despair. The object tags are
created automatically when you use Visual Studio and Expression Blend.
All the Stuff You Need to Create
Silverlight Applications
Microsoft provides all the programs needed to create Silverlight applications.
Expression Blend and Visual Studio are the most commonly used applications
to create Silverlight applications, and we cover these two products in depth
in this book.
To start developing applications in Silverlight 4, you need to install the
following programs and associated tools:
✓ Visual Studio 2010
✓ Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
✓ Expression Blend for .NET 4
✓ Silverlight Toolkit
✓ WCF RIA Services
✓ Deep Zoom composer
Other than Visual Studio and Expression Blend, all the tools listed here are
free for you to download and install. If you do not have Visual Studio 2010
installed on your machine, you can also use the free Visual Web Developer
2010 Express. There is, however, no free edition of Expression Blend.
Links to download the free tools can be obtained from www.silverlight.net.
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