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Quick question on the Programming Silverlight with .NET section. Will that section be getting additional content as the new features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1 and on become more clear? I would love to see full coverage of all the supported WPF controls for example.

Thanks,
Russ

I imagine you guys are very busy making updates/trying to get the book off to the stores. I was just curious if this book will eventuall have more coverage of the .net side of Silverlight 2 development, inc. coverage of controls, events, etc.

Thanks much for your time!

Good thing they let you modify these posts, and incase anyone is slow like myself on page 1.3.19.
when it says:

"Create a new Silverlight Control project within the current solution, and call it HelloWorld. You will now get a new test page, Hellow WorldsTest.aspx and a new project called HelloWorld."

It means add a new Silverlight application, once you give it a name an option will appear to link this silverlight control to an existing application.

Craig

This post has been edited by cwales: Apr 27 2008, 05:42 PM

I'm slow like you, Craig. I also had trouble understanding that section. The Silverlight Control got me confused with Silverlight User Control. It could be clearer.

Great question, Russ; I manage marketing at O'Reilly and work really closely with all of the editors; both of the editors for this book have been traveling like mad, so I'll ask them and get back to you on this in the next day or two.

Laurel A.

I'm checking in with the editors on this; I'll post back here when I get more info!

Thanks for your post.

Laurel A

I'm in with Craig and Gabriel: page 1.3.20 (using update 1) is obscure and misleading. I just wasted over an hour trying to figure out what it was talking about. It tells me to "Create a new Silverlight Control project". Note the capitalization of the word "Control": this would indicate that I am seeing the name of a project template.

Since there is no "Silverlight Control" template, I first tried adding a Silverlight Class Library, but of course that didn't produce the results described by the book, so I deleted it.

Next I tried adding a "Silverlight Application", checking the option "Link this Silverlight control into an existing website". This produced the new project, of course, but the HelloWorldTest.aspx page it claimed would be created was not present in that project, so I deleted it and went in search of more information.

Add a considerable time spent searching Microsoft for "Silverlight Control Project template" and variations thereof, and I finally was down to the point of posting a question about it on the forum. Fortunately for me, I came upon Craig's and Gabriel's comments. With that backup, I returned to the "Silverlight Application" project addition with the "link to existing" option.

This time, I studied the Solution Explorer more carefully and discovered that, yes, there was a new page--named "HelloWorldTestPage.aspx" (not "HellowWorldTest.aspx", as the book says); but this new page was in the Silverlight_Web project, not in the new "HelloWorld" project that I had just added. Now, in retrospect, it is logical that the aspx page would appear in the web project rather than in the HelloWorld project; but I didn't have time to think about stuff like that when I was blindly following instructions from the book and hoping they would come out right. Logically, to me at the time, a new page would appear as part of the new project that generated it.

Page 1.3.20 needs editing. It should say, "Create a new Silverlight Application project within the current solution, and call it HelloWorld. This time, select the option to "Link this Silverlight control into an existing website"--that website being our Silverlight_Web. You will now get a new test page in the Silverlight_Web project, named HelloWorldTestPage.aspx, and a new project named HelloWorld."

This post has been edited by FredSaw: Aug 10 2008, 08:20 PM