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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.
What you?ll learn
Learn the Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2008 IDEs.
Learn how to create stunning animations using Silverlight 3 Storyboards.
Learn how to incorporate video and sound into your RIAs with the Silverlight MediaElement.
Learn about and how to develop quickly using Silverlight 3`s reusable resources such as UserControls, ControlTemplates and DataTemplates.
Learn about the new Visual State Manager and the State panel in Blend 3 to quickly and easily add MouseEnter and MouseLeave states to your UserControls.
Put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 3 website.
Who this book is for
Web designers and developers wanting to learn Expression Blend 3 from the ground up. Those who have a background in the development of RIAs and want to learn this technology.Table of Contents
1. Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment
2. The Blend 3 Integrated Development Environment
3. C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming
4. Controls
5. Storyboards
6. Using the VSM and Blend 3?s States Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player
7. The Silverlight MediaElement
8. The WPF Toolkit
9. Events and EventHandlers
10. Classes and Interfaces
11. ControlTemplates, Styles, and Custom UserControls
12. Writing a Custom Content Panel
13. Building a Sketchflow Prototype
14. Putting Everything Together to Build a Sample Silverlight Website .ISBN - 9788132200925
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