Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

CHAPTER 15 ■ ENHANCING THE WEB EXPERIENCE WITH SILVERLIGHT 363
Embedded XAML reference: XAML can also be embedded within a tag within
your HTML. Should you use this approach, you will need to name the tag, and then
set the Source property of the Silverlight control to this value, prefixed with #.
Using Embedded XAML
Here’s an example of a tag that contains XAML:
Hello World
As you can see, this script block has been called xamlContent. Thus, when initializing
the Silverlight control, you would set its source to #xamlContent, like this:
function createSilverlight()
{
Silverlight.createObjectEx({
source: "#xamlContent",
parentElement: document.getElementById("SilverlightControlHost"),
id: "SilverlightControl",
properties: {
width: "100%",
height: "100%",
version: "1.0"
},
events: {
onLoad: handleLoad
}
});
}
The parentElement Property
This is the name of the element that contains the Silverlight component within the
HTML. In order for your Silverlight application to work correctly, this property must be
set, and it must be set to the correct value.