Silverlight how to#

I’ll be showing you how to install Visual Studio with the SilverlightTools, but I’m going to assume you already have a web server set up withPHP. I’ll first show you how to start developing with Silverlight,then cover how you set up the web service in PHP, and finally demonstratehow to access the service from your Silverlight application.To follow along, you’ll need Visual Studio, Silverlight Tools, and PHP5. However, in this article, we’re choosing to go with a SOAPWeb Service.

You might think that it would be more difficult to use Silverlight in aPHP application, but it’s actually quite simple you can leverage JSON, XML,or any number of communication technologies to pass data from Silverlight tothe PHP backend. It can be hostedregardless of whether your site is built in plain HTML, ASP.NET, or evenPHP. Silverlight runs on Windows and Mac in mostmodern browsers.It’s worth noting that Silverlight is a client-side technology, whichmeans it’s not tied to any particular server-side platform. NET developers can utilizetheir existing skillset to create Silverlight-based applications with arelatively easy learning curve. For the uninitiated, Silverlight is a client-side technologypowered by the. Microsoft entered the RIA space in late 2007 withSilverlight. These canbe built using any of a number of different technologies, but what they havein common is their goal of recreating a desktop application experienceinside a web browser. In recent years, web developers have been moving increasingly towardsthe development of so-called RIAs, or Rich Internet Applications.