Contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
- 1 Introducing Silverlight
- Silverlight up your life
- Why can’t we be friends?
- XAML
- Blending it together
- Summary
- 2 Harmony with the web
- The relationship between Silverlight and the HTML DOM
- Creating a Silverlight plug-in
- Integrating a Silverlight plug-in
- The Silverlight Application Model
- Interacting with the HTML DOM
- Summary
- 3 Back to the basics: Layout and text
- A Canvas for your imagination
- The StackPanel: Stack ’em deep
- The power Grid
- Displaying text
- The UIElement and FrameworkElement
- Summary
- 4 Handling user interaction
- Understanding device support
- Delivering text controls
- Button controls
- The ItemsControl
- Date controls
- Choosing from a numeric range
- Displaying visual prompts
- Miscellaneous controls
- Summary
- 5 Getting down with data binding
- Binding with your data
- Understanding your data source
- Customizing the display
- The DataGrid
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Summary
- 6 Networking and communications
- Trust, security, and browser limitations
- Connecting to data sources
- Making the data usable
- Using advanced services
- Summary
- 7 Managing digital media
- Stunning audio and video
- Playlists: for that web-based mixtape
- Interactive playback
- Using protected content
- Using images in your application
- The 7th inning stretch: Dealing with dead space
- Summary
- 8 Getting a grip on graphics
- Getting in shape
- Geometry
- Brushes
- Transforms
- Blending it together
- Summary
- 9 Bringing it to life: Animation
- Animation: It’s about time
- Mastering the timeline
- Storyboarding
- Key framing
- Summary
- 10 Giving it style
- Being resourceful
- Giving your elements style
- Creating templates
- Dealing with visual states
- Leveraging the VisualStateManager
- Sharing your effects
- Summary
- 11 Enhancing the experience
- Storing data in isolated storage
- Using XAML at runtime
- BackgroundWorker
- Retrieving content on demand
- The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)
- Summary
- 12 Share the light: Distribution and deployment
- Creating a user control
- Architecting navigation in Silverlight
- Using a custom splash screen
- Hosting with Silverlight Streaming
- Summary
