With this we will end the introductory chapter of this book. We've learned about what Silverlight is and what we can do with it. We've set up a development environment for Silverlight. We've learned about XAML—what it does and how to use it. We've also looked into the Silverlight application model and learned what a XAP file is and what it contains, and we finished off with an introduction to the integration of Silverlight with HTML and the concept of out-of-browser applications.

I hope that you gained as much as possible from this chapter and grasped all the basics of Silverlight, as we are now ready to move on to laying out a user interface, which is the topic of our next chapter.