

Just like you don't see too many sites written completely in Flash, the same holds for Silverlight. While some people are writing entire sites in Silverlight I personally think it is a better fit to just "light up" the page by adding some rich content where appropriate No, there are still plenty of cases where you would use ASP.NET (and AJAX, MVC, etc). So if I have a textbox that I created in Blend can I add an AJAX Hover Menu Extender to it? If not how do you use Ajax with Silverlight? So if I have a web application that I have already created in VS 2008 and I wanted to add a Silverlight button to a webpage in my web app, how would I do that? Is this now the "Standard" way we are suppose to create web pages? according to Microsoft.
#Use silverlight code#
So as a web developer am I suppose to now create the UI in Silverlight Expression Blend and then write all the logic code in Visual Studio in the code behind. I do have a few follow up if you don't mind. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. There is a concept of themes in Silverlight, check out the Silverlight Toolkit for more: What about themes? Can you use themes in Silverlight? No, but you can call AJAX functions from Silverlight if you wanted to control something on the hosting page. You can create a user control in Silverlight and embed it in an HTML page using the object tag, for this you would typically have a Silverlight project in your solution and reference it from your web application.Ĭan you use AJAX controls in SIlverlight? You can also shoose StackPanel, Canvas, or a custom panel if Grid doesn't fit your needs.Ĭan you create a user control in Silverlight and then dump that user control into a Visual Studio web project? As for grids being bad, that is a CSS/HTML thing, Grids are very different in Silverlight and are a very powerful layout One bigĭifference is that properties on XAML elements are strongly typed so a string of freeform CSS text doesn't fit well into this approach. There is a concept of styles that are similar in behavior and many of the properties on elements in XAML are similar to CSS styles. Can you use CSS with Silverlight? Should you use CSS with Silverlight? Why doesn't Silverlight use CSS or Divs?ĬSS is specifically for HTML, since Silverlight uses XAML it doesn't use CSS. I thought we were supposed to use CSS not grids. I noticed in creating things in Silverlight they use grids. Silvrlight applications are created using mainly Visual Studio and Expression Blend.

Silverlight is a plugin that runs in the browser. Is Silverlight suppose to be the UI creator? Click on the warning in the address bar, allow plug-ins for time cockpit and click "Done":Īfter that, time cockpit will be working again in Chrome.The short answer on what you use Silverlight for is use it for things you can't do or can't easily do in HTML and Javascript.
#Use silverlight windows#
All open Chrome windows will be closed and re-opened.
#Use silverlight Pc#
This may have two reasons: Silverlight is not installed on your PC or the plug-in is disabled in your Chrome browser. To re-enable Silverlight you have to take the following steps: If you are using a version greater or equal 42 you will see the following screen when navigating to : Enable Silverlight in ChromeĬhrome disabled Silverlight by default in version 42. Just click the link "Activate Silverlight" and time cockpit will be running. When opening in Firefox you may see the following message: There will be updates every week, so come back regularly to see what's new. We are working very hard to replace the Silverlight client by a platform- independent HTML5 client. Most of the functionality of time cockpit lists and forms is supported in the HTML5 preview already and since this month there is already a first preview of the time tracking calendar available.
#Use silverlight how to#
In the newest release of Google Chrome (v42), you can still use Silverlight but you have to explicitly enable it. Below you will find instructions on how to enable Silverlight in Chrome and Firefox. However, Microsoft will support Silverlight until October 2021, so in Internet Explorer will continue to work well. In 2013, Microsoft announced that they have ceased development of Silverlight except for patches and bugfixes.
