Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2008
212 pages
978-0-596-55138-4 (ISBN)
Description
Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, Microsoft's hot runtime application. Available only as an ebook, this concise, easy-to-understand introduction provides complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight 2 has to offer, including tools for animation, vector graphics, video playback, .NET support for web services and networking, as well as LINQ, Microsoft's native data querying tool. Essential Silverlight 2 helps you take advantage of Microsoft's cross-browser plug-in with:Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust and easier to debug and test than what you can achieve on other platformsScores of tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in your own applicationsExpert guidance from an author who understands RIA technologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScriptReady to deliver a more complete Web experience? Essential Silverlight 2 offers a world of possibilities.
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Content
- Intro
- 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
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Introducing Silverlight 2
- Rich Internet Applications
- Benefits of Rich Internet Applications
- Shortcomings of Rich Internet Applications
- RIA Technologies
- Further Reading
- Chapter 2. Introducing WPF
- Vectors
- WPF
- XAML
- Further Reading
- Chapter 3. 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
- Chapter 4. Introducing Silverlight Tools
- XML Editors
- Vector Graphics Editors
- Silverlight IDEs
- Further Reading
- Part II. Declarative Silverlight
- Chapter 5. Introducing XAML
- Using Text
- Using Shapes
- Positioning Elements
- Using Images
- Using Brushes
- Using Grids and Panels
- Further Reading
- Chapter 6. Handling User Interaction and Events
- Events and Event Handlers
- Declarative Event Handlers
- Event Listeners
- Mouse Events
- Mouse Position
- Drag and Drop
- Keyboard Events
- Further Reading
- Chapter 7. Transforming and Animating Content
- Transformations
- Animations
- Setting Up an Animation
- Animation Types
- Keyframe Animations
- Coding Animation
- Further Reading
- Chapter 8. Adding Sound and Video
- Preparing Multimedia Data
- Converting Data
- Adding Markers
- Streaming Video
- MediaElement
- Embedding Multimedia
- Controlling Multimedia
- Play and pause
- Setting the volume
- Determining the media position
- Working with markers
- Further Reading
- Chapter 9. Using Silverlight Controls
- The TextBox Control
- The CheckBox Control
- The RadioButton Control
- The ListBox Control
- The Button Control
- The ToggleButton Control
- The Calendar Control
- The DatePicker Control
- Further Reading
- Chapter 10. Using Silverlight Data Binding
- Data Binding with Markup
- Data Binding with Code
- One-Way Data Binding
- Two-Way Data Binding
- Data Conversions
- Data Validation
- Further Reading
- Chapter 11. Styles and Templates
- Styles
- Templates
- The Visual State Manager
- Part III. Programming Silverlight with .NET
- Chapter 12. Adding Silverlight Content to ASP.NET 3.5 Applications
- Embedding XAML
- Embedding Media Content
- Further Reading
- Chapter 13. Using External Network Resources
- Using HTTP Resources
- Consuming WCF Services
- Security Restrictions For External Resources
- Further Reading
- Chapter 14. Reading and Writing Local Files
- Accessing Local Files
- Using Isolated Storage
- Further Reading
- Part IV. Programming Silverlight with JavaScript
- Chapter 15. Accessing Silverlight Content with JavaScript (and Vice Versa)
- Accessing the Plug-in
- Communicating with the Plug-in
- Determining Plug-in Settings
- Modifying XAML Content
- Dumping Content Information
- Communicating with Managed Code
- Calling Managed Code from JavaScript
- Calling JavaScript from Managed Code
- Further Reading
- Chapter 16. Special Silverlight JavaScript APIs
- Advanced JavaScript APIs
- Dynamically Downloading Content
- Using Additional Fonts
- Further Reading
- Part V. Appendix
- Appendix. Silverlight JavaScript Reference
- Using the Silverlight Plug-in
- Index
