Recommended Project Template Modifications

As you've seen, you get quite a reasonable starting point for a business application in Silverlight, but you'll probably want to make a few changes to the default template before you get started developing.

As described previously, the following files can be found in the web application project in your solution:

• ApplicationNameTestPage.aspx
• ApplicationNameTestPage.html

These two pages do much the same thing—there's little difference (in terms of results) between the two, so you only really need one of them. ASPX pages need to be processed on the server by ASP.NET, so unless you want to do some processing in the code-behind of the page (such as checking security credentials), you can simply use the HTML page instead. You can then delete the one you don't need. On the remaining page, right-click its entry in Solution Explorer, and select Set as Start Page from the context menu to ensure it is automatically loaded in the browser when the project is run.