Minimal Silverlight example

Question

What is the really minimal example of Silverlight application?

For example, I made the following example with IronPython:

from System.Windows import Application
from System.Windows.Controls import Canvas, TextBlock

canvas = Canvas()
textblock = TextBlock()
textblock.FontSize = 24
textblock.Text = 'Hello!'
canvas.Children.Add(textblock)

Application.Current.RootVisual = canvas

Then I used chiron and it created a .xap file. No (explicit) XAML, no nothing. Is it possible to do the same in, say, C#? One source file which I could compile from command line? If so, what would the source code be?

My motivation is to try and create silverlight app with unconventional languages, right now I am stuck at Boo...

Answer 1

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;

namespace MimimalSilverlightApp
{
    public class App : Application
    {
        public App()
        {
            this.Startup += this.Application_Startup;
        }

        private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)
        {
            var canvas = new Canvas();

            var textblock = new TextBlock();
            textblock.FontSize = 24;
            textblock.Text = "Hello!";
            canvas.Children.Add(textblock);

            this.RootVisual = canvas;
        }
    }
}