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Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications that are characterized by rich graphics, interactivity, and a responsive user interface, resulting in an immersive and engaging user experience.

• Project Silk provides guidance for building cross-browser web applications that are characterized by an intentional design, rich interactivity, and a responsive UI, resulting in an immersive and engaging user experience. Such applications take advantage of the latest web standards, including HTML5, CSS3, and ECMAScript version 5, and modern web technologies such as jQuery and ASP.NET MVC3.
  The concepts explained in the Project Silk written guidance are demonstrated via a real-world customer-facing web application, the Mileage Stats Reference Implementation, which allows users to track metrics about their vehicles.
  The architecture of Mileage Stats illustrates how you can take advantage of the fast JavaScript engines of the modern, standards-based web browsers to achieve a user experience and execution speeds that rivals desktop applications. Windows Internet Explorer 9 further enriches the user experience by taking full advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics processing.
  

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
Microsoft Project Silk EPUB.epub SHA1: daea0a1966dd5d0b8651e47d689ce2045e95ef25	12.09 MB
Microsoft Project Silk.pdf SHA1: 2aea2fbebe71d1dab52d59039dc71911c2dacb14	6.25 MB
Silk-RTM.exe SHA1: e27402e900e52c149ba6ebd040f8398c3064271a	22.75 MB

• The following must be installed:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate edition
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (installed with Visual Studio 2010)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1
  • ASP.NET MVC 3
  • Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0
  • ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 - Update 1
  • You should download and install Entity Framework from the Microsoft Download Center rather than using NuGet.
  • For information about the Entity Framework 4.1 release, see EF 4.1 Released.
  • For information about the Entity Framework 4.1 - Update 1 release, see EF 4.1 Update 1 Released.
  NuGet version 1.4 or later
  • Internet Explorer 9 or another modern Internet browser.
  Optional:
  • Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1

• To install the Project Silk assets, save the .exe file into a folder of your choice and run the file. This will extract the source code and documentation.You will need to run a script to install NuGet packages and download external JavaScript libraries.Detailed installation instructions are provided in the Readme file. We recommend all developers read this document.