Beginning Silverlight 3

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.

What you'll learn

• Discover the tools needed for Silverlight 3 development, the roles each plays, and how they interact to produce a seamless result.
• Understand the fundamental concepts and techniques that lie at the heart of every successful Silverlight application and how to apply them to your own projects.
• Explore the new features and coding practices Silverlight gives to you as a developer that sets it apart from other web-development tools.

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Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is yourpractical companion to developing rich, interactive web applicationswith Microsoft's latest technology. This book tackles common problemsand scenarios that on-the-job developers face every day by revealingcode and detailed solutions. You’ll quickly be able to integratereal-world, functioning code into your applications—and save hours ofcoding time.

The recipes included in Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approachhave been carefully selected and tested with the professional developerin mind. You'll find problems stated clearly and succinctly, artfulsolutions explored, and ample discussion of the code and context soyou're immediately clear how the solution will support your project.

Enjoy practical coverage of Silverlight development in many projects and contexts, including:

• Designing complete, rich, interactive user experiences
• Manipulating content and the runtime environment through the Silverlight Plug-in Runtime API
• Consuming,transforming, and displaying content in your Silverlight webapplication through XML, LINQ-based data access, and isolated storage
• Building custom controls for your Silverlight project
• Integrating rich media, including audio and video, to create a very dynamic user interface and experience
• Usingnew Silverlight features, including .NET Framework integration, the useof dynamic languages like Python and Ruby in Silverlight development,and digital rights management support

Find instant solutions, comprehensive Silverlight coverage, and time-saving expert advice, all in Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach.

What you'll learn

• Work with fundamental aspects of the Silverlight and XAML programming model
• Design Silverlight user experiences
• Use and change the Silverlight runtime environment
• Manipulate and take advantage of browser DOM integration
• Discover solutions to custom networking and communication scenarios, including messaging and web service integration
• Work with structured data and storage, including using LINQ to access data
• Develop custom controls
• Integrate rich media into your Silverlight application

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Pro Silverlight 3 in VB

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug-in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It's a rules-changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it's able to host true .NET applications in non-Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non-Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.

Pro Silverlight 3 in VB, Second Edition is the perfect reference to ensure you are informed and up to date: you'll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you'll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next-generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial written from professional developer to professional developer. You'll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you’re most productive in—no matter what the target platform.

What you'll learn

• Develop rich media applications using Silverlight and Visual Basic across browsers and platforms
• Create a project, set up a layout, and use controls
• Handle 2D drawing, animation, and media playback through Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Integrate web services support
• Use Silverlight in conjunction with ASP.NET and its interactions with HTML

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Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date

Book Description

Now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft's hot new runtime application -- without waiting for the official release. That's right. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you not only get a concise, easy-to-understand introduction to Silverlight 2, but thorough coverage of the CTPs, betas, and RTM releases as they become available. Once you buy this Up-to-Date edition, you'll be able to download free PDFs of all the revisions to Silverlight -- pages that you can print and insert right into the book's unique binder format. Pre-printed updates will also be available for purchase. It combines the the speed of technology with convenience of a book. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you learn to take advantage of Microsoft's cross-browser Silverlight plug-in with tools for animation, vector graphics, and video playback, as well as new .NET support for web services, networking and LINQ (language integrated query). This guide gives you complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight has to offer, along 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? Now there's no reason to wait. Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date offers a whole new world of possibilities.

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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional

Book Description

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied.

The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve read this book, you’ll have a solid understand of all the techniques that are available, when to use them, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

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