Silverlight 2 Bible

by Dayley, Brad; Dayley, Lisa DaNae

• ISBN13: 9780470375006
• ISBN10: 0470375000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The "Silverlight Bible" will offer readers a strong foundation in Silverlight - Microsoft's solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for Web-based applications. Using this book, readers will soon be able to build a variety of Silverlight applications. This book will show users exactly how to build everything from basic, static Silverlight-enabled HTML pages, to advanced, Silverlight-enhanced ASP.NET applications. The "Silverlight Bible" will discuss development tools, such as Expression Blend 2.0, which Microsoft has positioned for designing the UI of Silverlight applications, as well as Visual Studio 2008, which can be used to debug Silverlight applications.

Author Biography

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience developing products and services for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and NetWare. He is the author of several books on topics including large network management, Web frameworks, and the Python programming language.

Lisa DaNae Dayley has owned a media creation business for 14 years and written several books including Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 in a Snap and Photoshop CS3 Extended Video and 3D Bible.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Silverlight Basics

Getting to Know Silverlight

What Is Silverlight?

Why Use Silverlight?

Comparing Silverlight 1.0 and 2

Silverlight Framework Architecture

The Silverlight plug-in

The Silverlight core presentation framework

The .NET Silverlight framework

Silverlight application architecture

Summary

Getting Started with Silverlight

Implementing the Silverlight Development Environment

Installing Visual Studio 2008

Installing the Silverlight plug-in

Installing the Silverlight SDK

Implementing Silverlight applications on the Linux platform

Understanding Silverlight Development Tools

Using Silverlight in Visual Studio 2008

Designing Silverlight applications and elements in Expression Blend

Encoding Silverlight media elements in Expression Encoder

Outputting vector images as XAML using Expression Design

Encoding Multiscale Images Using Deep Zoom Composer

Building Your First Silverlight

Application

Summary

Silverlight Design Fundamentals

Using XAML to Build Declarative Silverlight Applications

Understanding the Silverlight/XAML Relationship

Understanding XML Namespaces

Creating Silverlight Controls

Creating a Button

Creating a Calendar

Creating a Check

Box

Creating a Date

Picker

Creating a Hyperlink

Button

Creating an Image

Creating a List

Box

Creating a Media

Element

Creating a Radio

Button

Creating a Scroll

Bar

Creating a Scroll

Viewer

Creating a Slider

Creating a Text

Block

Creating a Text

Box

Creating a Toggle

Button

Designing the Layout of Silverlight Applications

Using a Canvas control

Using a Grid control

Using a Tab

Control control

Using a Stack

Panel control

Using a Border control

Using XAML Transforms

Scale

Transform

Rotate

Transform

Skew

Transform

Translate

Transform

Opacity

Drawing

Creating a Rectangle

Creating an Ellipse

Creating a Path

Using XAML Brushes

Adding a Solid

Color

Brush

Adding a Linear

Gradient

Brush

Adding a Radial

Gradient

Brush

Adding an Image

Brush

Adding a Video

Brush

Implementing Animations and Storyboards

Defining Storyboard controls

Starting animations upon page load

Creating From/To animations

Creating Key Frame animations

Creating animations as Resources

Attaching Event Handlers to XAML Elements

Summary

Using Expression Blend to Design Silverlight Applications

Getting Started with Expression Blend

Creating a Silverlight application project in Expression Blend

Using the Design, XAML, and Split views

Understanding the Expression Blend Toolbox

Adding Silverlight controls

Arranging Controls in the Design View

Using snaplines and gridlines

Aligning controls

Nesting controls using layout panels

Ordering controls

Modifying the Properties of Silverlight Controls

Naming the control

Attaching event handlers to controls

Applying brushes to controls

Setting appearance properties of controls

Setting the layout of controls in the Silverlight application

Applying transforms to controls

Modifying other control properties

Creating Storyboards and Animations in Expression Blend

Creating a Storyboard

Animating Silverlight controls in a Storyboard timeline

Playing animations in Expression Blend

Recording and modifying key frames

Importing Vector Images Using Expression Design and Express

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