Essential Silverlight

Wenz K.0596516118

Essential Silverlight teaches experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers how to add more interactive and graphically rich interfaces to their web applications using the new MicrosoftR SilverlightT cross browser plug-in.

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Table of contents :
Essential Silverlight……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 10
How This Book Is Organized……Page 11
Conventions Used in This Book……Page 12
How to Contact Us……Page 13
Acknowledgments……Page 14
Part I. Introduction……Page 16
Of Vectors and Pixels……Page 18
WPF……Page 19
XAML……Page 22
Further Reading……Page 23
About Silverlight……Page 24
Setting Up a Silverlight Development System……Page 26
A First Silverlight Example……Page 29
Further Reading……Page 40
XML Editors……Page 42
Vector Graphics Editors……Page 43
Silverlight IDEs……Page 44
Further Reading……Page 45
Part II. Declarative Silverlight……Page 50
Using Text……Page 52
Using Shapes……Page 58
Positioning Elements……Page 65
Using Images……Page 68
Using Brushes……Page 69
For Further Reading……Page 75
Interactive Silverlight……Page 76
Declarative Event Handlers……Page 77
Event Listeners……Page 79
Mouse Events……Page 81
Mouse Position……Page 83
Drag and Drop……Page 86
Keyboard Events……Page 89
For Further Reading……Page 93
Transformations……Page 94
Animations……Page 101
Setting Up an Animation……Page 102
Animation Types……Page 106
Key Frame Animations……Page 109
ScriptingAnimation……Page 112
For Further Reading……Page 117
Preparing Multimedia Data……Page 118
Converting Data……Page 119
Adding Markers……Page 121
Streaming Video……Page 122
Embedding Multimedia……Page 124
Controlling Multimedia……Page 129
Play and Pause……Page 133
Setting the Volume……Page 134
Determining the Media Position……Page 135
Working with Markers……Page 137
For Further Reading……Page 144
Part III. Programmatic Silverlight……Page 146
Accessing the Plug-in……Page 148
Determining Plug-in Settings……Page 150
Modifying XAML Content……Page 152
Dumping Content Information……Page 155
For Further Reading……Page 160
Dynamically Downloading Content……Page 162
Using Additional Fonts……Page 167
Further Reading……Page 171
Installing the ASP.NET Futures……Page 172
Embedding XAML……Page 173
Embedding Media Content……Page 179
For Further Reading……Page 183
Silverlight’s Future……Page 184
.NET Integration……Page 185
Further New Features……Page 189
Further Reading……Page 190
Using the Silverlight Plug-in……Page 192