Using Silverlight to create a custom control C# ASP.NET

Question

A few things off the bat.

• I've never used Silverlight before.
• I'll be using Silverlight v3.0 in VS2008 (3.5 framework)

I'm going to be using it to create a user control for an existing C# web application that doesn't use Silverlight currently and I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

Am I supposed to add a Silverlight Application to the current project? Do I make it it's own project and somehow import it later? Also, any considerations/worries I should know of in attempting something like this?

Not really sure where to get started. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I've built a custom file uploader in Silverlight before, so I can give you some tips.

1. Create a standalone silverlight project

2. The project above builds a .xap file

3. There is also a TestPage.html that is generated. It contains a reference to Silverlight.js and an <OBJECT> tag that hosts the control on a web page.

4. You can use that to figure what HTML is required to host the Silverlight control.

5. Create your own ASP.net project, and create a control that generates the required HTML.

6. Include the .xap file and the silverlight.js file in your distribution of the custom control.