[DISCLAIMER] Before I start, I have to state that this is only my opinion!!!
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…
[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:
That’s cool, what about video?
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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