Here’s a preview sample application created for our upcoming Three Screens and a Cloud course at Washtenaw Community College’s Lifelong learning program. The course allows you to create and target applications that run on the WEB/PCs, Run on Phones, and run on devices (such as the X-Box 360 and inside of automobiles). We are waiting approval to see if this application will be made available for free on the Windows Marketplace Store.

PC via XAML+.NET:

Windows Phone 7:

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Event: What is Silverlight for Windows Embedded for C++?

Time :Thursday, February 17 · 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location
SRT Solutions

206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200

Ann Arbor, MI

Michigan Silverlight Designers and Developers Group

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Yes Virginia, there a version of Silverlight that works with embedded systems and works with C++ native code ?

Silverlight for Windows Embedded is a native (C++ based) user interface (UI) development framework for Windows Embedded Compact powered devices and is based on Microsoft Silverlight 3.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded offers a comprehensive C++ API that is fully-compatible with XML-based declarative markup and has no dep...endency on the .NET Framework.
With Silverlight for Windows Embedded, embedded OEMs can either completely predefine the visual appearance, effects, and behavior in source XAML, or use the C++ programming model to create or customize the UI appearance and functionality for the shell and applications.

Developers can use the Silverlight C++ API to load and display an existing XAML UI, implement event handling for the XAML elements, or customize the UI at run-time by adding new elements or changing the visual appearance to respond to factors present at run-time.

To enable interaction with the XAML UI at run-time, Silverlight for Windows Embedded provides Win32 support for hosting the Silverlight visual tree. It also uses the same visual tree to store new objects added by C++ application code at run time.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded is interoperable with Microsoft Expression Blend 3 and provides tools to generate template application code based on Expression Blend 3 XAML projects.

Silverlight for Windows Embedded provides helper template methods that automate safe implicit-type conversion of generic object types. The Silverlight for Windows Embedded programming model provides a visual host that hosts a Silverlight visual tree in a Win32 window. To handle UI events, you can attach C++ delegates to UI objects through methods available on various classes in the C++ API.

With Silverlight for Windows Embedded, you can create a Silverlight application for an embedded device, create and add custom user controls to your application, add Win32 controls to your application, and support hardware-accelerated graphics in the OS.