Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture

In the unlikely event that you don’t know about Silverlight, it’s a web-based technology that allows designers and developers to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA) embedded in web pages. It is a cross-browser, cross-platform RIA framework, which provides a consistent user experience everywhere it runs. The architecture of Silverlight projects, and the deployment of a stripped-down version of the .NET CLR, are what make this possible, and what I’ll be look at here.

In this article, I will give you an overview of how web browsers render Silverlight applications, and identify which are the main components involved in the execution of said Silverlight applications. Armed with this information, you’ll have a much better sense of what’s going on inside your Silverlight projects, and will better able to troubleshoot basic rendering problems.

To start, let’s create a sample Silverlight application; open the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, go to the File > New Project menu item, and pick the Silverlight Application template from the available options.

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