Getting started silverlight

• Open Visual Studio and Click File->New Project… And Select Silverlight Application in Silverlight Templates. You can give a name to the project say MyFirstApplication and click OK.
• This is to select whether you need to add a web application in the solution to host the silverlight file(xap). This is optional depending upon your requirement. This is similar to adding projects to a solution.

• Drag and drop a Button and TextBlock control from the ToolBox in MainPage.xaml. You may adjust the width of TextBlock. Then double click the button to go to the ‘button1_Click’ event in the code file(MainPage.xaml.cs).  You may be able to see other available events for the control in the Events tab in Properties window. Double click a event to go to the particular event.

Type the code below in the button1_Click event assuming Button name is ‘button1’ and TextBox name is textBlock1
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    textBlock1.Text = "Hello, Welcome to silverlight";
}

• Press F5 to start debugging the silverlight application.

Click here to download the sample file

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