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Synopsis
This valuable reference—in full color—explains the major new release of Silverlight 3 which is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of powerful Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a highly-seasoned team of developers and designers, this book guides you through the languages, tools, and techniques that are used to build applications on the Silverlight 3 platform (Build 40522). Each chapter provides a mini-tutorial on the respective topic, and the examples serve to both educate and inspire you. The information in this book is structured to help prepare you for the real-world challenges you may face when building applications on the Silverlight platform. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of how Silverlight applications are architected, developed, and designed.
This book covers:
· XAML basics
· Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight Runtime and SDK
Transforming text with render transforms
· Using graphics, visuals and adding media for a richer user experience
· Building application, making it come alive and responding to user activity
· Setting up a control project and using a custom control in an application
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From the Back Cover
Silverlight 3 is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of rich interactive applications (RIAs) more achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a team of seasoned developers and designers, this full-color tutorial demonstrates exactly what Silverlight 3 offers for building RIAs that combine animation, graphics, audio, and video.
With a focus on the capabilities provided by the Silverlight 3platform (Build 40522), this book introduces you to the languages, tools, and techniques needed to build applications on the platform. You'll begin with an overview of Silverlight and move on to topic-by-topic coverage of this new platform's capabilities, including new APIs, objects, services, and concepts. Each chapter provides a mini-tutorial on each topic, and the examples serve to both educate and inspire you. The information in this book is structured to help prepare you for the real-world challenges you may face when building applications on the Silverlight platform.
With this resource, you'll gain a thorough understanding of how Silverlight applications are architected, developed, and designed.
What you will learn from this book
- Ways to create holistic Silverlight applications (not just multimedia glitz)
How to solve real-world problems you may face when building your Silverlight applications
Ways to use controls, work with text, lay out views, style applications, use graphics, work with audio, and more
The basics of using designer and developer tools with Silverlight (including Expression Blend and Visual Studio®)
How to use XAML in Silverlight for event handling
Transforming text with render transforms
Who this book is for
This book is for .NET developers who want to learn how to create practical Silverlight 3 applications.
Wrox Programmer's References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.
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