[DISCLAIMER] Before I start, I have to state that this is only my opinion!!!
![](https://yydgew.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pDrlflY65jghwiMvkgGwPTd40dvVqTOY9MlQ7b07SSAMY5AteoBBWELZWHXGehDzIeDtnhTPdU8K5swdG_Who7ZONRrH11DEX/AdobeSpinner.png)
With the disclaimer out of the way, a large percentage of the websites out there that utilize Flash use it as islands of richness. This is where a portion of the screen uses flash to do things like show different marketing “slides” or videos. I KNOW there is more to Flash than just these two scenarios, but this is what I mostly find (in my opinion). I think Silverlight makes both these scenarios extremely easy to implement!!!
Let's take the Skin It to Win it competition hosted by SlideDeck as a example…
![](https://yydgew.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ptP49EZ6y8kJOQGhCg93rcqSveSm8jR_qLOyR9EhFGwOA8XVpotQPYw77E1QpssUepmAqp3MWeR8tWosJ8FvlUHRf_fg4kpmc/SkinItToWinIt.png)
[DISCLAIMER] I know jQuery also allows this… (Take SlideDeck
as a example.)
If I wanted to implement a SlideDeck
in Silverlight? Why not use the Accordian (available in the Toolkit)?
Here is the code:
<layout:Accordion ExpandDirection="Right">
<layout:AccordionItem Header="Item #1">
<Image Source="Pages/Page1.png" />
</layout:AccordionItem>
<layout:AccordionItem Header="Item #2">
<Image Source="Pages/Page2.png" />
</layout:AccordionItem>
<layout:AccordionItem Header="Item #3">
<Image Source="Pages/Page3.png" />
</layout:AccordionItem>
<layout:AccordionItem Header="Item #4">
<Image Source="Pages/Page4.png" />
</layout:AccordionItem>
<layout:AccordionItem Header="Item #5">
<Image Source="Pages/Page5.png" />
</layout:AccordionItem>
</layout:Accordion>
And this is how it looks:
![](https://yydgew.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pIr_Q961y0eb0KIsc8YlGWdyjY-Q9eNY0zlScv-dYgkw3qsQ9AyAxDCQG4OxY7zcXcmxfcTO2weoCW3eM8Wmqw_AjrmmRuIiP/Accordian.png)
That’s cool, what about video?
![](https://yydgew.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pDnTCfYyKxifbpnxt-xHo87G-ShUhzNzIAE4ebKId9G6dMhIevMu9-cZjBeyTZIOjZTVGfdv14oOsE93V0YS0DJ53jfRvfzfz/AdobeVideo.png)
Video is JUST AS EASY in Silverlight… For more information, read Create your own Hulu.com.
You can find the source here.
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