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    <p><strong>Masterpages does Silverlight provide a similar concept ?</strong></p> <p>Not directly but it does provide a variety of ways to acheive the goals of Masterpages. The navigation framework is mostly the sort of thing you would need to achieve the typical reason to use Masterpages.</p> <p>However its also possible to achieve "masterpage" functionality more generally by creating a <code>UserControl</code> that has <code>ContentControl</code> instances at points where in ASP.NET masterpages you would have used a <code>asp:contentplaceholder</code>. These content controls would be bound to custom properties added to the <code>UserControl</code>. This completed <code>UserControl</code> can then be used as the "LayoutRoot" of another <code>UserControl</code> or <code>Page</code>. Note this does not require inheritence from the "master".</p> <p><strong>Does a combined ASP.NET and Silverlight app make sense?</strong></p> <p>Well thats a tricky one the answer really is, "It depends". There are way to many factors to give this a true answer. Factors:-</p> <ul> <li>Is this a public app or an internal app?</li> <li>How important are including rich UI features?</li> <li>First time Silverlight dev will <strong>cost</strong> you, is your project able to absorbe that?</li> <li>What client platforms do you need to support?</li> <li>How might ASP.NET-MVC + appropriate use of JQuery size up against your requirements?</li> <li><em>Probably others I haven't thought of yet</em></li> </ul> <p><strong>Is Silverlight is the better choice than ASP.NET when there are many and complex user interactions?</strong></p> <p>The phrase "complex user interactions" could mean a couple of things? Do mean complex to deliver with HTML and Javascript but simple for the user? Or is this a sophisticated app aimed at an expert user?</p> <p>In either case its likely that Silverlight will start to come into its own here.</p> <p><strong>Does make it sense also to start to use/learn the WCF RIA Services immediately?</strong></p> <p>Yet again the answer depends of the type of application you have in mind. If its line of business app where data is searched, edited and reported on then (assuming you have decided to develop in Silverlight at all) definitely you should be looking at WCF RIA Services as well as the parts of PRISM that think are appropriate.</p> <p>Other types of apps may not benefit from WCF RIA Services.</p> <p><strong>Are there good (VS) templates to start with Silverlight or which are a good basis / starting point for a new Silverlight application ?</strong></p> <p>There are no start kits at present. However I think you will find what you need amoung the various demos and tutorials on the <a href="http://silverlight.net/learn/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">silverlight learning</a> site. </p> <p>I've particular found the videos useful. If you decide to go Silverlight its well worth clearing a day or two to got through the relevent ones.</p>
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