The Difference Between Silverlight and Silverlight Based Phone 7 Apps
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Join For FreeThe past week I was asked a couple times about the difference between
Silverlight and Silverlight for phone 7. Really? Other then a few
minor technical differences in the most current version of Silverlight
vs a bit more limited version in phone 7. The cool thing is that
Silverlight for phone 7 really is Silverlight so the same code base can
be used on just about anything. But back to the details. Phone 7 is
just a 'specific' more limited version so most stuff you can normally do
work fine. There are no new skills, not really anything new save maybe
a few api's specific to the phone. The biggest diffence is really just
the basic pages and user control names. In phone 7 you really have a
set size and 2 orientations. That being the case the phone 7
silverlight team has built these controls to deal with the 2
orientations of the screen and the specific size for phone 7. With that
start making phone 7 apps its easy and fun just like any other
Silverlight app. ok well you will need to download the special wizbang
version of visual studio for phone 7 from http://www.Silverlight.net/ just click on 'Get Started' and go from there.
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