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I’ve been playing with Microsoft Silverlight and would like to share how to use it. First what is Microsoft Silverlight?

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterizes rich Internet applications

Currently in Version 2 and Version 3 is in Beta. Version 2 brought with it the use of the Dynamic Language Runtime environment or DLR this allows for languages using .net to implement Silverlight Applications Such as C# VB.net Iron Python and Iron Ruby. To explain it better you can now use Python in your browser!

Silverlight uses XAML an XML based language developed by microsoft for use with silverlight

Extensible Application Markup Language, or XAML (pronounced “zammel”), is an XML-based markup language developed by Microsoft

Alright now that we know what Silverlight is we can start to use it. The examples I will be developing will be for IronPython 2.01

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