Silverlight 2 in Action

EBook Description: Microsoft describes Silverlight as a �cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.� That�s a really boring description for a really exciting new technology. Anyone who has looked at the demos and gotten a taste of what Silverlight can do knows that Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich web interface technology for Microsoft developers. With Silverlight 2, developers can use JavaScript, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby to build user-friendly, interactive, and visually-dazzling web applications that work in most major browsers. Silverlight 2 in Action covers Silverlight 2, a far more robust implementation of Silverlight than the Silverlight 1 release that supports only JavaScript. The much-anticipated 2 release adds powerful new features along with the ability to code in multiple languages and integrate your work with Visual Studio and the new Expression suite of tools. This book delivers real-world examples and in-depth walkthroughs to help you confidently enhance your web applications using Silverlight 2. Silverlight 2 in Action devotes extensive coverage to flexible layout components, the extensible control model, the communication framework, and the data-binding features �all cornerstones of software development. Author and Microsoft MVP Chad Campbell also describes rich media and vivid graphical and animation features. The final chapters include a variety of Silverlight deployment scenarios. In addition to the fundamentals of Silverlight, you�ll be introduced to architectural components such as the Silverlight object model. The book addresses the developer/designer collaboration model Silverlight enables, showing the developer how to include the designer effectively in the project workflow. This model is illustrated throughout the examples. For ongoing reader support, the author will maintain a dedicated book-support website providing up-to-the-minute working examples, complete with source code, all in Silverlight.

The fun and easy guide for building Silverlight 4 applications!
Silverlight is a Web browser plugin that enables functions such as animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback that characterize rich Internet applications. It only requires a simple download, after which most end-users are not even aware that it's running. This helpful guide covers everything you need to know in order to start creating applications in Silverlight 4 and then moves on to key topics such as controls, data binding, skinning, using Visual Studio tools, and more.

Whether you have just the most basic programming skills and are interested in learning to develop Silverlight apps or you are an experienced developer looking for an understandable guide on the newest version of Silverlight, Microsoft Silverlight 4 For Dummies is ideal for a wide audience.

* The Silverlight plugin enables animation, streaming media, vector graphics, and audio-video playback
* Shows you how to create applications in Silverlight 4
* Covers important Silverlight topics including controls, data binding, skinning, animations, and more
* Discusses how to best use the offering of tools from Visual Studio

Get enlightened and start creating Silverlight 4 applications with this book by your side.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Building a Bing Web Using Blend and Silverlight

Want to build a Bing web and image search using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Kirupa Chinnathambi of the Expression team shows you just how to do that in this week�s episode. Kirupa covers a lot of topics as he builds the app, including how to:

* wire up the app
* add the image templates
* use the Pivot control
* apply the built in resources to pick up the selected theme in the phone
* use sample data
* template a ListBox�s ItemsPanel
* use the WrapPanel from the toolkit
* handle orientation changes of the phone
* customize the ApplicationBar

Beginning Silverlight 3 (PDF)

Beginning Silverlight 3 /by Robert Lair (Author) .Silverlight design tools have important differences compared to those used to create Ajax and JavaScript functionality. Robert Lair takes you on a tour of all the tools, including Microsoft Expression Design, which plays an important part in creating Silverlight assets; Microsoft Expression Blend, which is used to build user interaction for Silverlight elements; and Microsoft Visual Studio, which manages the interaction between designers and developers, providing the coding environment for "nuts and bolts" wiring.

Once you've mastered the basics, you'll move on to gaining a more in-depth knowledge of some of the groundbreaking new features of the Silverlight technology.

The growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications is increasing user expectations for high-quality web site design, presentation, and functionality. It is into this climate that Microsoft is releasing Silverlight 3, the third iteration of its cross-browser web presentation technology and the second to ride on top of the .NET platform. Beginning Sliverlight 3 brings you to the cutting-edge of Web 2.0 application design and includes plenty of practical guidance to get you started straightaway.

Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook

Silverlight makes it much easier to build web applications with highly usable, interactive, and exciting user interfaces. However, with so many new options open to designers and developers, making the best use of the tools available is not always so easy. It�s ease of use and rapid development process has left one area completely uncovered� how to design, build, and implement professional and usable interfaces, and create an enjoyable user experience and interaction.

Written by a Microsoft MVP and Silverlight Prototyping Specialist, this book is the first and only book on developing Silverlight User Interfaces. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to build all the user interface elements that users look forward to in a cutting edge app. This book offers essential recipes, with each recipe depicting the commonly used user interface patterns built with Silverlight, and in some cases, with WPF to showcase the possibilities.

The author�s experience in designing and developing user interfaces enables him to share insights on creating professional interfaces in a clear and friendly way. The book starts off with recipes dealing with fixed and fluid layouts, building custom command link controls, working with navigation, and collapsible panels, and then moves on to the more advanced topics such as calendars, alternating row colors, and task panes. The author covers a number of different UI patterns, controls, and approaches accompanied by XAML and C# code where needed (and explained), along with usage context and practical, proven, and professional techniques for specific controls and patterns.

From maps to task panes, and web cam support to pixel shaders, this Cookbook provides you with a rich selection of Silverlight UI recipes. It covers all that you need to know in order to design and implement a user interface, together with professional user experience and interface guidelines to make your solutions and applications pleasurable for your users.The author has found himself in the role of both, a designer and a developer, at different points in his professional career, and his motive was to create a book that will serve as a useful resource for designers and developers trying to find their way with Silverlight and Expression Blend.By the end of the book, you will be able to create a rich, professional, and standards-compliant user interface.

Design and implement professional user interfaces with Silverlight.

3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3 Beginner's Guide

A practical guide to creating real-time responsive online 3D games in Silverlight 3 using C#, XBAP WPF, XAML, Balder, and Farseer Physics Engine
Develop online interactive 3D games and scenes in Microsoft Silverlight 3 and XBAP WPF
Integrate Balder 3D engine 1.0, Farseer Physics Engine 2.1, and advanced object-oriented techniques to simplify the game development process
Enhance development with animated 3D characters, sounds, music, physics, stages, gauges, and backgrounds
Packed with inspiring, realistic examples offering impressive graphics, strong performance, and a rich interactive experience

Apress Pro Telerik ASP NET And Silverlight Controls (Jul 2010)

This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik�s range of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don�t want to build from scratch yourself�the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your web solutions.

Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation

Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, using trigonometry and vector movement before moving on to more advanced topics such as physics modeling and particle systems.

Essential Silverlight 3

�The book you are holding contains the keys to writing great Silverlight 3 applications. Use them well!�

-From the Foreword by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft Developer Division

Microsoft Silverlight is a leading cross-platform, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology that allows you to create more compelling and interactive Web experiences than are possible with simple HTML browser pages. Silverlight 3 includes significant improvements over previous versions, including �out-of-browser� operation, H.264 video, 3D graphics, and real-time effects.

Essential Silverlight 3 is the definitive reference and insider�s guide. It not only covers all the key features of the Silverlight 3 runtime and how to use them but, in Under the Hood sections, explains why each feature was developed and how each one works. These �insider� explanations often lead to concise, practical performance tips that can help you speed up your own Silverlight applications.

Author Ashraf Michail is uniquely qualified to explain Silverlight 3. He is a Microsoft Silverlight architect who has guided Silverlight from its beginnings through the current version. In this book, he shows how to
Integrate the principles and components of a Silverlight application, including XAP, XAML, and .NET code
Use Silverlight vector graphics, bitmap images, and animation
Display predictable and readable text across platforms and animate text elements
Obtain mouse and keyboard input, including mouse wheel events
Implement smooth animations to improve your user interface and make your application more pleasing to the user
Use the Canvas, StackPanel, Grid, and Border elements to lay out your application and define custom layout elements
Play high-quality, live, and on-demand video and audio
Customize the built-in and toolkit controls and develop new custom Silverlight controls
Connect to and synchronize with data using Silverlight Data Binding
Use built-in real-time effects and define custom HLSL pixel shaders
Enable GPU-accelerated rendering

Mastering Silverlight 4

In this series you will learn the basics of working with Silverlight, and then quickly transition to more advanced topics such as working with data, understanding XAML, and hooking into external services.

1 - What is Silverlight?
In this episode we'll go over the basics of what Silverlight 4.0 is and what it can do, and we'll do a quick demo of what building a Silverlight application might look like.

2 - Attack of the Layout
In this episode Chris shows you how to deal with layouts in Silverlight, working XAML to get your pixels lined up just so.

3 - Controls
In this episode Chris walks you through the use of various Silverlight controls and their properties.

4 - Databinding
In this episode Chris shows off databinding in Silverlight.

5 - Building a Business App
In this episode Christopher walks shows you how to put your Silverlight skills to good use, building up a Business Application.

6 - Building a Business App, Part 2
In this episode Christopher walks you through part 2 of creating a business-focused application with Silverlight - building out the Grid and Form bits he started in the last episode.

Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM

WPF and Silverlight are unlike any other user interface (UI) technologies. They have been built to a new paradigm that�if harnessed correctly�can yield unprecedented power and performance. This book shows you how to control that power to produce clean, testable, maintainable code.
It is now recognized that any non-trivial WPF or Silverlight application needs be designed around the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern in order to unlock the technology's full data-binding potential.
However, the knowledge of how to do this is missing from a large part of the development community�even amongst those who work with WPF and Silverlight on a daily basis. Too often there is a reliance on programmatic interaction between controls and not enough trust in the technologies' data-binding capabilities. This leads to a clouding of design values and an inevitable loss of performance, scalability, and maintainability throughout the application.
Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM will show you how to arrange your application so that it can grow as much as required in any direction without danger of collapse.
What you'll learn
# Understand why the separation of an application�s View and its Model is paramount, including the history of Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-Controller.
# Apply WPF and Silverlight�s powerful data-binding model correctly.
# Examine how to organize an application targeting WPF or Silverlight, including unit-testing, source-control, separation of concerns, data serialization, and how to tie everything together with MVVM.
# Develop a full game development application using MVVM by example.
# How to serialize the Model without being invasive, how to implement a plug-in architecture that extends both the View and the Model, and how to handle Exceptions gracefully.

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