Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft's technology. You'll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 integrated development environment (IDE), and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time. At the end, you'll put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 4 website.
Whether you're an experienced .NET or web developer, or you're just starting out, this book will provide you with all you need to create RIAs with Expression Blend 4.
- Develop stunning RIAs in a short time using Blend 4 and Silverlight 4.
- Learn basic object-oriented programming principles.
- Get familiar with the Blend 4 development environment.
Author(s): Victor Gaudioso (auth.), Tracy Brown, Ben Renow-Clarke, Corbin Collins, Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 440
Tags: Computer Science, general
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment....Pages 1-8
The Blend Integrated Development Environment....Pages 9-49
C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming....Pages 51-70
Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding....Pages 71-94
Timed Storyboards: Creating a Newton Cradle Application....Pages 95-122
Using VSM and Blend 4’s State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player....Pages 123-168
Behaviors in Silverlight....Pages 169-188
The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors....Pages 189-220
Events and EventHandlers....Pages 221-242
Classes and Interfaces....Pages 243-256
Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls....Pages 257-281
Writing a Custom Content Panel....Pages 283-301
Writing ailverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser Application with Elevated Trust and the New Silverlight 4 COM API....Pages 303-318
Creating a Photobooth Application with the Silverlight 4 Webcam API....Pages 319-340
MVVM: Model-View-ViewModel....Pages 341-367
SketchFlow Prototyping....Pages 369-391
New Features of Silverlight 4....Pages 393-403
Back Matter....Pages 405-420
