Essential Silverlight 2 Up-To-Date

by Wenz, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780596519988
• ISBN10: 0596519982
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Now you can design Rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's hot new runtime application - without waiting for the official release. That's right. With "Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date", you not only get a concise, easy-to-understand introduction to Silverlight 2, but thorough coverage of the CTPs, betas, and RTM releases as they become available. Once you buy this Up-to-Date edition, you'll receive printed pages on all the revisions to Silverlight - pages that you can insert right into the book's unique binder format. It combines the speed of technology with convenience of a book.With "Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date", you learn to take advantage of Microsoft's cross-browser Silverlight plug- in with tools for animation, vector graphics, and video playback, as well as new .NET support for web services, networking and LINQ (language integrated query).

Author Biography

Christian Wenz is an author, trainer, and consultant. His main focus of working and writing is on web technologies and security. Christian has written or co-written over 50 books for various publishers. He works with both open source and closed source web technologies. This leads to the unusual situation that he has both been awarded a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and is listed in Zend's Who is Who of PHP. He is also listed in Mozilla's credits (about:credits) and is considered an expert in browser-agnostic JavaScript.

Apart from writing and working on web projects, Christian also frequently speaks at developer conferences around the globe that cover web technologies. Among them are 2005's Microsoft Tech Ed Europe conference (BOF session) and the 2005 Zend Conference.

Table of Contents

Preface

Who This Book Is For

How This Book Is Organized

What You Need to Use This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introducing Silverlight 2

Rich Internet Applications

RIA Technologies

Introducing WPF

Vectors

WPF

XAML

Further Reading

Getting Started with Silverlight 2

Setting Up a Silverlight Development System

A First Silverlight Example: Creating a Web Site

A Second Silverlight Example: Creating a Project

Further Reading

Introducing Silverlight Tools

XML Editors

Vector Graphics Editors

Silverlight IDEs

Further Reading Declarative Silverlight

Introducing XAML

Using Text

Using Shapes

Positioning Elements

Using Images

Using Brushes

Further Reading

Handling User Interaction and Events

Events and Event Handlers

Mouse Events

Keyboard Events

Further Reading

Transforming and Animating Content

Transformations

Animations

Further Reading

Adding Sound and Video

Preparing Multimedia Data

MediaElement

Further Reading Programming Silverlight with .NET

Adding Silverlight Content to ASP.NET

Applications

Embedding XAML

Embedding Media Content

Further Reading Programming Silverlight with JavaScript

Accessing Silverlight Content with JavaScript

Accessing the Plug-in

Communicating with the Plug-in

Further Reading

Special Silverlight JavaScript APIs

Advanced JavaScript APIs

Dynamically Downloading Content

Using Additional Fonts

Further Reading

Appendix Silverlight JavaScript

Reference Using the Silverlight Plug-in Colophon

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