Hope, you read my first chapter of the Silverlight Tutorial “Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 1: Introduction to Silverlight”. In that post, we learned about the very basic informations on Silverlight, it’s System Requirements, pre-requisite to create a Silverlight application, XAP file, XAML file and hosting a Silverlight application.

In this chapter we will first discuss on how to create a new Silverlight project and the structure of it. Later in this chapter we will discuss on UserControls and various ways of development. After reading this chapter you will be able to create a HelloSilverlight application and UserControls for your application.

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Couple of days ago, I started working on writing Silverlight Tutorial for Beginners on request of Mr. Sheo Narayan (Web Master) from DotNetFunda.com. I was busy for last few days to publish it online. I was really excited for it. Today, I am announcing my first Chapter of the Silverlight Tutorial for the public view. It will be a continuous process to complete the full tutorial. Please keep an eye for the next publication.

Please don't forget to provide your comments or suggestions.

In this chapter of the tutorial, you will learn about the very basic information on Silverlight i.e. what is Silverlight, what is the System Requirements for installing Silverlight and the pre-requisite to create a Silverlight application. After reading this chapter you will come to know about XAML, XAP file, Application XAML and how to host a Silverlight application.
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Silverlight 4 now has support for installing out-of-browser application silently. If you are new to Silverlight Out-of-Browser application development, you can read the complete guide in “How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature?” Also have a look into the following article to get the basic understanding of Silverlight 4 Out Of Browser feature “Silverlight 4: How can I create customized OOB Window?

Hope, you read my previous articles on the Out of Browser application development and have confident building application. In those articles you have seen that I wrote code for installing the OOB application from browser window. Now imagine some scenarios where you want to install the Silverlight application (XAP) using your Installer silently without the user interaction. How can you do that? Silverlight 4 now came up with that feature for you. In this article I will describe it and after reading it you will be able to install your Silverlight OOB Application (XAP) silently in your local drive and can run it from the desktop or startmenu without opening the browser.

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Silverlight 4 is going to be launch today, the 13-April at 8:00 AM PST by Scott Guthrie. Come and join the Launch of Silverlight 4.

There he will provide updates on the progress made in Silverlight 4 and will provide the details of availability of the developer tools, runtime and other news. After the live event Channel 9 will be hosting interviews with Scott and other key members of the Silverlight and Expression teams. Don't miss the opportunity to see it online.
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It was a great start today in the morning when I checked my mailbox and found one mail from the webmaster of DotNetSpark.com congratulating me as the “Member of the month – March 2010” for my work contributed to the community. Here is the first couple of lines from the mail:
Dear Kunal,
Congratulations!! You are our monthly Winners for the month of March, 2010!!!
www.DotNetSpark.com proudly announces you as the monthly winner(March, 2010) for your sincere and tremendous contributions at
www.dotnetspark.com.
This is the consecutive second day of the month when I received such Award. Giving my thanks herewith to the DotNetSpark team for the honour given to me. Thank you.

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It was the Sunday morning, when I received the mail from the webmaster of DotNetFunda.com mentioning the subject line “Winner of the month – March 2010”. I was really surprised that I have been selected as the Winner for contributing Articles to the DotNetFunda.com site. I am really very pleased that, my articles are helping people to learn more about .Net, Silverlight and WPF.

I am very thankful to all who encouraged me to write articles. Also, I will give a lots of thanks to the team who selected me as the Winner. Thank you DotNetFunda.

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