Quick start with Silverlight 2

You can use Microsoft Expression Blend 2 with Service Pack 1 to quickly design stunning user interfaces for your Microsoft Silverlight 2 applications. Silverlight 2 provides the ability to deliver rich interactive applications and media experiences for the web. For more information about how to develop Silverlight 2, see Silverlight learning center.

In This Section

Conceptual

• Overview of Silverlight 2

How to

• Create a project for a Silverlight 2 application

• Open an existing Silverlight 2 project

• Draw a shape or path in your Silverlight 2 project

• Draw a control in your Silverlight 2 project

• Create a reusable template for a system control

• Modify the appearance of a system control in different states

• Modify the transition time between state changes in system controls

• Create a new user control in your Silverlight 2 project

• Define different visual states and transition times for a user control

• Change state in response to user interaction

• Add animation that will play after a change in state

• Import a custom control by adding a reference

• Create a skin for a control in a Silverlight 2 project

• Load a new page dynamically in your Silverlight 2 application

• Customize an Expression Encoder template for Silverlight 2

• Add a Silverlight 2 application to a website

• Install the Silverlight 2 tools and runtime