Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date (Up-To-Date Series)

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Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date (Up-To-Date Series) Pub. Date: 4/28/2008 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

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Overview

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 platforms
Scores of tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in your own applications
Expert guidance from an author who understands RIA technologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScript

Ready to deliver a more complete Web experience? Essential Silverlight 2 offers a world of possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780596519988
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/28/2008
Pages: 212
Series: Up-To-Date Series
Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Christian Wenz takes pride in the fact that he has written about using JavaScript to access remote data long before it was named "AJAX" and the whole buzz started. His (German) JavaScript book containing AJAX-related information goes into its 7th edition soon. He is also the author of PHP Phrasebook (Sams Publishing, September 2005) and Professional PHP5 (Wrox) due in 2006, and wrote or co-wrote over four dozen other titles. Christian 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 frequently speaks at developer conferences that cover web technologies.

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; Chapter 1: Introducing Silverlight 2; 1.1 Rich Internet Applications; 1.2 RIA Technologies; 1.3 Further Reading; Chapter 2: Introducing WPF; 2.1 Vectors; 2.2 WPF; 2.3 XAML; 2.4 Further Reading; Chapter 3: Getting Started with Silverlight 2; 3.1 Setting Up a Silverlight Development System; 3.2 A First Silverlight Example: Creating a Web Site; 3.3 A Second Silverlight Example: Creating a Project; 3.4 Further Reading; Chapter 4: Introducing Silverlight Tools; 4.1 XML Editors; 4.2 Vector Graphics Editors; 4.3 Silverlight IDEs; 4.4 Further Reading; Declarative Silverlight; Chapter 5: Introducing XAML; 5.1 Using Text; 5.2 Using Shapes; 5.3 Positioning Elements; 5.4 Using Images; 5.5 Using Brushes; 5.6 Using Grids and Panels; 5.7 Further Reading; Chapter 6: Handling User Interaction and Events; 6.1 Events and Event Handlers; 6.2 Mouse Events; 6.3 Keyboard Events; 6.4 Further Reading; Chapter 7: Transforming and Animating Content; 7.1 Transformations; 7.2 Animations; 7.3 Further Reading; Chapter 8: Adding Sound and Video; 8.1 Preparing Multimedia Data; 8.2 MediaElement; 8.3 Further Reading; Chapter 9: Using Silverlight Controls; 9.1 The TextBox Control; 9.2 The CheckBox Control; 9.3 The RadioButton Control; 9.4 The ListBox Control; 9.5 The Button Control; 9.6 The ToggleButton Control; 9.7 The Calendar Control; 9.8 The DatePicker Control; 9.9 Further Reading; Chapter 10: Using Silverlight Data Binding; 10.1 Data Binding with Markup; 10.2 Data Binding with Code; 10.3 One-Way Data Binding; 10.4 Two-Way Data Binding; 10.5 Data Conversions; 10.6 Data Validation; 10.7 Further Reading; Chapter 11: Styles and Templates; 11.1 Styles; 11.2 Templates; 11.3 The Visual State Manager; Programming Silverlight with .NET; Chapter 12: Adding Silverlight Content to ASP.NET 3.5 Applications; 12.1 Embedding XAML; 12.2 Embedding Media Content; 12.3 Further Reading; Chapter 13: Using External Network Resources; 13.1 Using HTTP Resources; 13.2 Consuming WCF Services; 13.3 Security Restrictions For External Resources; 13.4 Further Reading; Chapter 14: Reading and Writing Local Files; 14.1 Accessing Local Files; 14.2 Using Isolated Storage; 14.3 Further Reading; Programming Silverlight with JavaScript; Chapter 15: Accessing Silverlight Content with JavaScript (and Vice Versa); 15.1 Accessing the Plug-in; 15.2 Communicating with the Plug-in; 15.3 Communicating with Managed Code; 15.4 Further Reading; Chapter 16: Special Silverlight JavaScript APIs; 16.1 Advanced JavaScript APIs; 16.2 Dynamically Downloading Content; 16.3 Using Additional Fonts; 16.4 Further Reading; Appendix; Silverlight JavaScript Reference; Using the Silverlight Plug-in; Colophon;

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.

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