Everything .NET developers need to take advantage of Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 is a major new release of Microsoft’s flagship product for building rich, interactive applications that combine animation, graphics, audio, and video. This book, by seasoned Wrox authors and Silverlight experts, gives professional Web developers all the tools necessary to build RIAs using the new Silverlight capabilities. You will gain a complete, thorough understanding of both core and advanced platform concepts, with examples in C#.
Professional Silverlight 4 prepares Web developers to take full advantage of the newest release of the most popular platform for developing rich interactive applications.
Coverage Includes:
- Introduction to Silverlight
- Building Applications with Visual Studio
- Building Applications with Expression Blend 4
- Working with the Navigation Framework
- Controlling Layout with Panels
- Working with Visual Controls
- Accessing Data
- WCF RIA Services
- Out-of-Browser Experiences
- Networking Applications
- Building Line of Business Applications
- Application Architecture
- DOM Interaction
- Securing Your Applications
- Accessing Audio and Video Devices
- Working with File I/O
- Using Graphics and Visuals
- Working with Animations in Silverlight
- Working with Text
- Making It Richer with Media
- Styling and Themes
From the Back Cover
Exploit the powerful capabilities of the new Silverlight 4
The Silverlight 4 platform continues to add excitement to building rich Internet applications (RIAs), and it offers new user interface controls, expanded capabilities of the Base Class Libraries, and new libraries for building Line of Business applications. This invaluable resource helps you take your existing development skills to the next level so that you can create compelling RIAs with the new Silverlight 4. The trio of veteran authors presents clear and concise coverage of Silverlight essentials and its platforms concepts, while real-world samples enhance your learning process so you can get started building and running RIAs right away.
Professional Silverlight 4:
- Explains how to build Silverlight applications with Expression Blend 4 and Visual Studio 2010
- Reviews the Navigation Framework, visual controls, and working with networking in your applications
- Delves into graphics, animations, text, media, theming, and styling
- Details techniques for testing Silverlight 4 applications
- Explores methods for building Facebook applications with Silverlight
About the Author
Jason Beres is Vice President, Product Management at Infragistics. He is an active .NET user group supporter, an INETA Speaker, and has written multiple books on .NET technologies.Bill Evjen is one of the most active proponents of .NET technologies. He is the founder of the International .NET Association (INETA), author and coauthor of more than two dozen books, and Global Head of Platform Architecture at Thomson Reuters, Lipper.
Devin Rader works at Infragistics where he focuses on delivering greater user experiences to developers using their controls. He’s also a former INETA board member.
Book Details
- Paperback: 840 pages
- Publisher: Wrox (July, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470650923
- ISBN-13: 978-0470650929
- File Size: 46.3 MiB
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