In this presentation I will cover Silverlight 1.0, XAML and Silverlight 1.1.

Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. The runtime is available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, with Linux support under development via the third-party Moonlight runtime.

Silverlight aims to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. It also competes with Sun Microsystems' JavaFX, which was launched a few days after Silverlight.

Version 1.1 will include a complete version of the .NET Common Language Runtime, named CoreCLR, so that Silverlight applications can be written in any .NET language.

XAML is used extensively in the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies, particularly in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), where it is used as a user interface markup language to define UI elements, data binding, eventing, and other features, and in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), in which workflows themselves can be defined using XAML.

Toi Wright has made her living as a software developer for over 20 years. She received her BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT and her MS from CMU. For the last seven years she has worked as a consultant.
 

Toi Wright is the President of The Dallas ASP.Net User Group. Also, she is a member of the Microsoft Developer’s Guidance Council and she has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET since 2005.