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Overview:
Silverlight 4.0 makes it possible for developers to create rich, interactive applications delivered through a Web browser to nearly any client operating system, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. This course introduces the basics of creating and hosting Silverlight applications, working through many of the important controls, through binding Silverlight applications to live data. This course then moves beyond the basics to cover working through some more advanced controls, more graphic issues including shapes, geometries, brushes, transforms, and animations, through deploying Silverlight applications.
Prerequisites:
This course assumes that students have some programming background and experience using Visual Studio 2010. This course assumes knowledge of a CLS language (Visual C#), of the .NET Framework, and the current (or a prior) version of Visual Studio.
Lesson 1 – Introduction to Silverlight
• Introduce Silverlight 4
• Compare declarative and procedural coding styles
• Investigate the Silverlight designer in Visual Studio 2010
• Learn about controls and events in Silverlight 4
Lesson 2 – Layout
• Understand how the layout system works in Silverlight
• See how to use various containers to control layout
• See how to use alignment and sizing to control layout
Lesson 3 – Advanced Controls
• Learn how to use controls that enable users to select an item from a list
• See how to add menus to applications
• Explore controls that enable you to better organize content
Lesson 4 – Styles and Resources
• Investigate XAML Resources
• Learn about the hierarchy of resources
• Work with resources programmatically
• Organize resources with resource dictionaries
• Experiment with XAML Styles
• Apply Styles dynamically
• Work with Style inheritance
Lesson 5 – Navigation
• Explore navigation in WPF applications
• See how to build page-based applications that support navigation
• Learn how to navigate using XAML and code
• See how to build the Navigation Application project template
Lesson 6 – Binding
• Learn to use Binding objects to bind data sources and targets
• Add data converters to manage conversion during the binding process
• Use data templates to modify the layout of bound data in lists
Lesson 7 – Working with Data
• See hot to retrieve data from a WCF service
• Create common data bound forms
• See how to display information from main and related tables
Lesson 8 – Advanced Data Controls
• Explore how to use the DataGrid control to display data
• See how to use the DataGrid control to edit data
• Learn how to use the DataForm and DataPager controls to display data
Lesson 9 – Shapes and Geometries
• Learn to use basic shapes: lines, ellipses, rectangles, and polygons
• Add line caps and joins
• Work with geometries and paths
• Investigate the geometry mini-language
Lesson 10 – Brushes and Transforms
• Work with solid, gradient, and image brushes
• Add transparency effects, including opacity mask
• Investigate built-in transforms
• Add reflection effect using opacity mask and transforms
Lesson 11 – Deployment
• See how to deploy Silverlight applications
• Create common data bound forms
• Explore how to cusomize the installation of Silverlight
Lesson 12 – Introducing Expression Blend
• Compare Visual Studio and Expression Blend
• Examine the Blend integrated development environment
• Learn about Expression Blend’s designer panels
• Integrate Expression Blend with Visual Studio
• Create resources and set up element-to-element binding in Expression Blend
Lesson 13 – Introducing Animation
• Understand how animation works in XAML applications
• Examine animation, storyboard, and trigger objects
• Learn to start animations in code
• Work with DoubleAnimation, ColorAnimation, and PointAnimation objects
• Examine properties of the animation classes
• Try out various easing functions
• Use Expression Blend to interactively create animations
Lesson 14 – Working with Data Using WCF Data Services
• Learn how to create WCF Data Services
• See how to call WCF Data Services from Silverlight applications
• Explore how to modify data using WCF Data Services
Lesson 15 – Silverlight and Networking
• See how to make cross-domain calls from Silverlight applications
• Explore how to use the WebClient class to request data from Web Sites
