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Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

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Authors:
  1. Victor Gaudioso
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  2. Ben Renow-Clarke
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  • Takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft's technology.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Blend Integrated Development Environment

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 9-49

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

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 51-70

  5. Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 71-94

  6. Timed Storyboards: Creating a Newton Cradle Application

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 95-122

  7. Using VSM and Blend 4’s State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 123-168

  8. Behaviors in Silverlight

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 169-188

  9. The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 189-220

  10. Events and EventHandlers

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 221-242

  11. Classes and Interfaces

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 243-256

  12. Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 257-281

  13. Writing a Custom Content Panel

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 283-301

  14. Writing ailverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser Application with Elevated Trust and the New Silverlight 4 COM API

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 303-318

  15. Creating a Photobooth Application with the Silverlight 4 Webcam API

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 319-340

  16. MVVM: Model-View-ViewModel

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 341-367

  17. SketchFlow Prototyping

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 369-391

  18. New Features of Silverlight 4

    • Victor Gaudioso
    Pages 393-403

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 405-420
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About this book

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft’s technology. You’ll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 integrated development environment (IDE), and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time. At the end, you’ll put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 4 website.

Whether you’re an experienced .NET or web developer, or you’re just starting out, this book will provide you with all you need to create RIAs with Expression Blend 4.

  • Develop stunning RIAs in a short time using Blend 4 and Silverlight 4.
  • Learn basic object-oriented programming principles.
  • Get familiar with the Blend 4 development environment.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight

  • Authors: Victor Gaudioso

  • Editors: Tracy Brown, Ben Renow-Clarke, Corbin Collins, Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, … Tom Welsh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2974-2

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Victor Gaudioso 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-2973-5Published: 01 September 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-2974-2Published: 01 February 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 440

  • Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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