Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Setting up the Silverlight Development Environment

   Pages 1-10

3. The Blend 3 Integrated Development Environment

   Pages 13-47

4. C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming

   Pages 49-68

5. Controls

   Pages 71-86

6. StoryboardS

   Pages 89-107

7. Using the VSM and Blend 3’s States Panel to Create a silVerlight Media Player

   Pages 109-146

8. The Silverlight MediaElement

   Pages 149-178

9. The WPF Toolkit

   Pages 181-197

10. Events and Eventhandlers

    Pages 199-227

11. Classes and Interfaces

    Pages 229-244

12. Controltemplates, styles, and Custom UserControls

    Pages 247-274

13. Writing a Custom Content Panel

    Pages 277-294

14. Building a Sketchflow Prototype

    Pages 297-315

15. Putting Everything together to Build a Sample Silverlight Website

    Pages 317-330

16. Back Matter

    Pages 333-341

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The only real tool for developing cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) for that last 11 years has been Flash; until now! Silverlight 3 allows you to develop cross-platform rich Internet applications in a fraction of the time because of the extensive and very powerful .NET 3.5 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 3 IDE, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.

• Develop stunning RIAs in a short time.
• Learn some basic object-oriented programming principles.
• Get familiar with the Blend 3 development environment.

• .NET
• Boo
• C#
• Expression Blend
• Flash
• Rich Internet Application
• Silverlight
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• XAML

Victor Gaudioso is a senior application engineer at IdentityMine, a top-tier software company specializing in designing and developing cutting edge software applications, creating customized WPF/Blend and Silverlight training programs and creating tools for designers and developers. Victor has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Harrah's, Mattel, NBC/Universal, Disney, Best Buy, GameStop, Vivendi Universal Games, and New Line Cinema, among others. Victor, a former Flash/ActionScript engineer, still stays active in the Flash community by writing articles and tutorials on ActionScript.org, where he is also a moderator.

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