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Hello Silverlight - Start Your Silverlight Journey Today!

I think today is the start for great things to come. And why? Because I had my first article published today, thats why! You can find it over at Dotnetslackers : http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/silverlight/HelloSilverlightStartYourSilverlightJourneyToday.aspx. It basically is the walk through I was looking for when I was curious about Silverlight, but could never find.

It discusses what you need to start developing in Silverlight, what makes up your average Silverlight project, and walks you through a simple example.

If you found my article useful, I also found another good Silverlight article today at the codeproject :  http://www.codeproject.com/silverlight/BeginningSilverlightPart1.asp

happy coding 

Update : 
Ever wondered how you can render HTML in your silverlight controls? Delay has written an HTMLTextBlock control that does just that. Obviously it does not have a fully fledged HTML rendering engine behind the scenes, but it supports the more common tags. Check it out.
 

Published Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:25 PM by bradvin
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# re: Hello Silverlight - Start Your Silverlight Journey Today!@ Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:37 PM

For video or animation I think its a no brainer for most - Flash simply has the install base. I'm trying to determine how well silverlight is as an application platform - something Flash has never gotten right. I'm wondering, does Silverlight have support for showing HTML within a control?

by Dave

# re: Hello Silverlight - Start Your Silverlight Journey Today!@ Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:01 AM

Silverlight's built-in TextBlock control does not support rich text. However it can be done and this guy has done it at http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/09/10/bringing-a-bit-of-html-to-silverlight-htmltextblock-makes-rich-text-display-easy.aspx

blogs.msdn.com/.../bringing-a-bit-of-html-to-silverlight-htmltextblock-makes-rich-text-display-easy.aspx

by bradvin

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