Much like a regular HTML application, a Silverlight application can be structured as a set of pages with navigation links between them. This allows not only for navigation within the Silverlight content but also for applications to surface their inner content via hyperlinks in just the same way as any other web content.

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Silverlight has an animation system whereby most properties on user interface elements can be animated – properties like width, height, rotation, color and so on can all be targeted in a consistent way regardless of the type of the content itself. Let’s take a look at the basics of animations using Expression Blend.

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One of the defining characteristics of a RIA is the ability to cross the network and grab resources. There are many ways to do this in Silverlight, but here we’ll write a little code to illustrate just about the simplest: an asynchronous request across the network for an XML file.

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Silverlight is known as a “browser plug-in” but it can easily be used to build 3 different kinds of applications cross-platform. There’s the browser app, the out-of-browser app and the elevated-trust out of browser app. Here we’ll take a look at how you build all 3.

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One of Silverlight’s most powerful features is that the built-in controls have a look-and-feel that comes from a template. These templates can be replaced to provide completely different visuals onto a control which still behaves the same way. In this video we’ll use Expression Blend to replace the look and feel of a simple control, see how the control still functions correctly, then how we can set up the different visual states and transitions.

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