Tips Tricks and Techniques For Building Great Silverlight Apps

1) Follow performance tips Recently published by MS
These can be found at http://msdn2.micosoft.com/en-us/library/bb693295.aspx
2) Never make the user wait and wonder
-avoid static declaration of large files
-use downloader in Silverlight 1.0, or webclient in silverlight 2.0
3) OPtimize Install experience
- Try not to just default MS install message(non-technical folks wont know for sure what it is)
4) Use Timers to drive progromatic animations
5) Support interactive zoom for ease of use and accessibility
6) Use Deep Zoom for truely eye-popping zoom effects
-Will need to download deepzoom composer to get all the information this will need
7) Pageturns
- add effect like turning book pages o the app
8) can we talk
- Have 2 silveright controls talk to each other