Silverlight Research & Development

As an emerging Microsoft technology, Silverlight has naturally gained a lot of support within Microsoft and with many of their vendors. In order to stay current Allyis asked Ben to devote time to better understand what was involved in creating Silverlight applications.

As the assignment was very open ended Ben approached the task by looking at what skills and requirements might be necessary to build a client application. Steps required included creating multiple custom classes, dynamically loading XAML controls, handing user input from both mouse and keyboard, detecting collision and handling interaction of different controls, and working with various XAML layout and design components.

Ben's end result were the two applications seen here, one geared towards business use and the other to entertainment.

C#, XAML, Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Visual Studio