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Pro Silverlight 3 in VB

Apress
  • Clearest possible explanation of Silverlight 3's highly graphical tools and output

  • Builds on the proven success of the first edition of this book and adds full coverage of the technology's new features

  • Written by Matthew MacDonald, an author with a strong track record of producing industry-leading Silverlight, ASP and WPF books going back many years

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
  2. Introducing Silverlight

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 1-31
  3. XAML

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 33-59
  4. Layout

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 61-107
  5. Dependency Properties and Routed Events

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 109-136
  6. Elements

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 137-181
  7. The Application Model

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 183-223
  8. Navigation

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 225-249
  9. Shapes and Geometries

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 251-287
  10. Brushes, Transforms, and Bitmaps

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 289-321
  11. Animation

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 323-381
  12. Sound, Video, and Deep Zoom

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 383-421
  13. Styles and Behaviors

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 423-446
  14. Templates and Custom Controls

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 447-487
  15. Browser Integration

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 489-513
  16. ASP.NET Web Services

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 515-537
  17. Data Binding

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 539-582
  18. Data Controls

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 583-631
  19. Isolated Storage

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 633-654
  20. Multithreading

    • Matthew MacDonald
    Pages 655-676

About this book

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug-in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It's a rules-changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it's able to host true .NET applications in non-Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non-Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.

Pro Silverlight 3 in VB, Second Edition is the perfect reference to ensure you are informed and up to date: you'll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you'll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next-generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial written from professional developer to professional developer. You'll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in—no matter what the target platform.

About the author

Matthew MacDonald is an author,educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He isthe author of more than a dozen books about .NET programming. In a dimly-remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics.

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