My first Silverlight project
For work I have to make an image scroller with logo’s. Every logo is a link. Not so hard to do, except: It has to be made in Silverlight.
But after some days of trying, learning en building I did it. The Silverlight Carousel parses a XML file with the content and place the images in a random order in the carousel. With 2 buttons you can scroll left and right.
Afterall Silverlight isn’t that hard. But It’s more like HTML than Flash, specially since I used Silverlight 1.0 which is only scripted in JavaScript. First I started with Expression Studio, but I didn’t get the scripting working, so finally I just used Notepad the build it.
So check it out: My first Silverlight project
November 21st, 2007 at 12:00
And what is your opinion, is Silverlight a competitor for Flash in it’s current form?
November 21st, 2007 at 12:13
No, not at all. There is more potential in the 1.1 version, but since that is in alpha state we can’t use it for production. The current 1.0 version is more like HTML with some extra features.
Silverlight should be browser independent, but since it uses the JavaScript compiler of the browser there are some differences. For parsing the XML I had to do a browser check and I noticed that the order of some events differences between browsers.