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Digitalosophy
May 13th, 2008, 04:51 PM
So I'm not sure if any of you guys have had to work on a Silverlight projects yet or pages that have Silverlight content. I just read the manual provided by Micro$oft and I have to tell you it's utterly ridiculous IMO.

Graphic placeholders, browser checking, including many different javascript files. It all just seems a bit much for me just to have an install link for a plug in.

Thumbs down.
sekasi
May 13th, 2008, 04:55 PM
Sounds like how you SHOULD go about putting install links for Flash : )
Digitalosophy
May 13th, 2008, 04:58 PM
Sounds like how you SHOULD go about putting install links for Flash : )

Certainly not my decision ;)
Krilnon
May 13th, 2008, 05:28 PM
Kirupa's post makes it seem simple: http://blog.kirupa.com/?p=140
Digitalosophy
May 13th, 2008, 06:30 PM
It's not. Also the xaml is a mess. Trying to mod one of these is no fun.
kirupa
May 13th, 2008, 10:28 PM
What exactly are you doing beyond the default configuration? By default any Silverlight project output by Blend or Visual Studio will do all of this for you - placeholder graphic, browser checking, SL version checking, etc. :)

Also for modding the XAML, what app are you using?
Digitalosophy
May 14th, 2008, 08:51 AM
Kirupa, I sent you a PM.
oldarney
May 25th, 2008, 01:29 PM
Kirupa, I sent you a PM.

you should check out this video, http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=143

its shows most of the work flow to creating silver light content. i dont think silverlight is in any position to take over flash, they might even play together. consider making an app that reads a .max file and shows a preview of it while uploading it. impossible in flash.