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Get a head start with Silverlight 2—the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for rich interactive applications and the next-generation user experience.

Featuring advance insights from inside the Microsoft Silverlight team, this book delivers the practical, approachable guidance and code to inspire your next solutions, and offers pointers to C# and XAML code samples on the Web.

Discover how to:

Create your first simple sites and browser-hosted applications
Use XAML to render, scale, and animate graphics on-screen
Exploit Microsoft .NET runtime and Visual Studio language support
Explore the full suite of controls—build and extend your own
Experiment with media, ink, and Deep Zoom capabilities
Create connected applications
Put dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python to work
Deliver skinned media content
Manage Silverlight applications from ASP.NETbased servers

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ISBN-13: 9780735625280
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication date: 6/28/2008
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Edition number: 2
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 1,222,105
Product dimensions: 8.90 (w) x 7.92 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Meet the Author

Laurence Moroney is a Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Silverlight and the user experience. He has more than a decade of experience in software development and implementation, and has written dozens of books and articles on Windows Presentation Foundation, Web development, security, and interoperability.

Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Silverlight?; Who This Book Is For; What This Book Is About; System Requirements; The Companion Web Site; Support for This Book; Questions and Comments; About the Author; Introducing Silverlight 2; Chapter 1: Introducing Silverlight 2; 1.1 Silverlight and User Experience; 1.2 Silverlight Architecture; 1.3 Silverlight and XAML; 1.4 Silverlight and the Expression Suite; 1.5 Silverlight and Expression Encoder; 1.6 Summary; Chapter 2: Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2; 2.1 Getting Started with Expression Blend; 2.2 The Expression Blend IDE; 2.3 Using Blend to Build Silverlight Applications; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3: Using Visual Studio with Silverlight 2; 3.1 Installing the Visual Studio Tools for Silverlight; 3.2 Using Visual Studio to Build a Silverlight Application; 3.3 Building a Silverlight 2 Game; 3.4 Summary; Chapter 4: XAML Basics; 4.1 XAML Layout Properties; 4.2 XAML Brushes; 4.3 XAML Visual Properties; 4.4 Shapes in XAML; 4.5 Clipping and Geometries in XAML; 4.6 XAML Controls in Silverlight; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5: XAML Transformation and Animation; 5.1 Transformations; 5.2 Animation; 5.3 Animation and Expression Blend; 5.4 Summary; Chapter 6: The Silverlight Browser Control; 6.1 Hosting Silverlight in the Browser; 6.2 Using the Object Tag Directly; 6.3 Responding to Page Load Events; 6.4 Responding to Page Error Events; 6.5 Programming UI Elements; 6.6 Summary; Programming Silverlight 2; Chapter 7: Silverlight Controls: Presentation and Layout; 7.1 The Button Control; 7.2 The CheckBox Control; 7.3 The HyperlinkButton Control; 7.4 The Image Control; 7.5 The ListBox Control; 7.6 The RadioButton Control; 7.7 The TextBlock Control; 7.8 The TextBox Control; 7.9 Common Properties, Events, and Methods; 7.10 Summary; Chapter 8: Silverlight Controls: Advanced Controls; 8.1 The DataGrid Control; 8.2 The Calendar and DatePicker Controls; 8.3 The RepeatButton and ToggleButton Controls; 8.4 The ScrollViewer Control; 8.5 The Slider Control; 8.6 The WatermarkedTextBox Control; 8.7 Summary; Chapter 9: Building Your Own Silverlight Control; 9.1 Creating the Project; 9.2 Building Silverlight Class Libraries; 9.3 Summary; Chapter 10: Building Connected Applications with Silverlight; 10.1 Connecting Applications with XAML; 10.2 Building Connectivity Using JavaScript; 10.3 Using ASP.NET AJAX and Web Services; 10.4 Summary; Chapter 11: Media, Ink, and Deep Zoom; 11.1 The MediaElement Control; 11.2 Programming the MediaElement; 11.3 Painting Video Using the VideoBrush; 11.4 The InkPresenter Control; 11.5 Deep Zoom with the MultiScaleImage Control; 11.6 Summary; Chapter 12: Styles and Templates in Silverlight 2; 12.1 Understanding Styling; 12.2 Templates; 12.3 Summary; Chapter 13: Silverlight ASP.NET Controls; 13.1 The Silverlight Server Control; 13.2 The Silverlight MediaPlayer ASP.NET Control; 13.3 Summary; Chapter 14: Using Dynamic Languages in Silverlight 2; 14.1 Your First Silverlight IronPython Application; 14.2 Using Ruby and JavaScript; 14.3 A More Complex Example; 14.4 Summary;

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Posted March 23, 2009

How to do Real web graphics with Silverlight

Aside from the legacy developers who are still using a text editor or by rote methods for web design, there are two major camps for professional web graphics design. They are the Silverlight and the Flash design groups. The current goal of both is to provide web designs with professional looking graphics and control appearances.

Silverlight is the recent entry into the graphics arena. Based on the WPF graphics capabilities built into the release of the .NET version 3.5 that provides graphic control shaping, shading, motion, and both 2D and 3D effects. This book gives an excellent introduction not only into the Silverlight version of graphic capabilities, but also shows, in graduated steps, how to build the code into a web design using both Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Part I of the book is involved in the initial introduction to Silverlight and involves the use of layout managers, control appearance, and use of the two development tools to position and manage elementary displays. Controlling dynamic behavior of the displays is programmed using events, transforms, storyboards and paths. Programmers of WPF based GUIs will recognize these techniques as identical to the ones used in application design.

Part II of the book moves on to applying standard and advanced controls such as the Image, Listbox, DataGrid, and Calendar. Custom control design is introduced next. This is where the lessons start to pay off. With the new content based control basics, almost anything that can be imagined can be designed. I have used a book on WPF Recipes to animate a control along a path using storyboards. In time, I expect to see some websites using Silverlight to do some sophisticated 3D presentations.

The last chapters of Part II are concerned with expanding the roles of Silverlight to add a host of features. Included are Web Services, connection to a MySql database through PHP scripts, use of Java Server Pages to contain the Silverlight code. Also, AJAX control of Web Services is demonstrated.

Among the most interesting aspect of this section is the use of Deep Zoom. If you have seen this demonstrated on the Microsoft web pages, it opens up a way of including immense amounts of visual detail in a zoomable image than can expand or shrink by thousands of sizes controlled by the mouse wheel.

I found this book to be an excellent introduction to Silverlight and rated it appropriately. Once you get the feel of what can be done, visit the Microsoft site for more training. Silverlight 3 is almost ready for release and it provides even more visual capabilities for site presentation. Silverlight is becomming available on Linux under the Moonlight name. This is making Silverlight a force in multi-platform website design. I have placed Silverlight in my must have web techniques skill set and I am looking forward to making them display my concepts for my market area.
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