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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

By : Johnny Tordgeman

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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

4.8 (5)

By: Johnny Tordgeman

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Silverlight is also a great (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. Silverlight is based on familiar .NET languages such as C# which enables existing .NET developers to get started developing rich internet applications almost immediately. "MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide" will show you how to prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam.Packed with practical examples and Q&As, MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide starts by showing you how to lay out a user interface, enhance the user interface, implement application logic, work with data and interact with a host platform amongst others.

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Overview of Silverlight

Overview of Silverlight

What is Microsoft Silverlight

Introducing XAML

The Silverlight application model

Integrating Silverlight with HTML

In and out-of-browser support

Summary

Laying out Our User Interface

Laying out Our User Interface

Arranging content with panels

Using core and content controls

Creating user controls

The navigation framework

Displaying a collection of items

Playing media files

Test your knowledge

Summary

Enhancing the User Interface

Enhancing the User Interface

Creating or modifying the control styles

Creating control templates

Creating or modifying data templates

Manipulating visuals

Animating visuals

Implementing behaviors

Managing the visual state

Test your knowledge

Summary

Implementing Application Logic

Implementing Application Logic

Handling events

Consuming services asynchronously

Working with background threads

Working with dependency properties

Interacting with attached properties

Implementing ICommand

Test your knowledge

Summary

Working with Data

Working with Data

Implementing data binding

Formatting data

Creating and consuming value converters

Implementing data validation

Test your knowledge

Summary

Interacting with the Host Platform

Interacting with the Host Platform

Implementing the printing API

Creating out-of-browser applications

Accessing the isolated storage

Interacting with the DOM

Accessing the clipboard

Reading from and writing to the host filesystem

Handling alternative input methods

Test your knowledge

Summary

Structuring Applications

Structuring Applications

Creating and consuming resource dictionaries

Implementing localization and globalization

Handling application-level events

Test your knowledge

Summary

Deploying Applications

Deploying Applications

Configuring the Silverlight plugin

Dynamically loading application resources

Creating a client access policy

Test your knowledge

Summary

Test Your Knowledge — Answers

Test Your Knowledge — Answers

Chapter 2: Laying out Our User Interface

Chapter 3: Enhancing the User Interface

Chapter 4: Implementing Application Logic

Chapter 5: Working with Data

Chapter 6: Interacting with the Host Platform

Chapter 7: Structuring Applications

Chapter 8: Deploying Applications

Creating control templates

In today's world, professionals want to use a wide array of controls such as Button, TextBox, Slider, and so on. In many cases, you don't want to reinvent the wheel but just use the basic control in a way that fits your design. How many times did you want to have a round button? Or a control that does the exact same action as a slider but looks completely different? To answer these kinds of issues the concept of templates was introduced. Templating, as the name implies, allows you to completely change the way a control looks without sacrificing its behavior. To template a control, you first need a control. Let's create a new Silverlight application project, name it Chapter3-Templates and leave all the default options. Once the project is ready, add a button to the page using the following code:

<Button Width="100" Height="100" Content="Round" Click="Button_Click"> </Button>

Switch over to the code behind file (MainPage.xaml.cs), and add the following...

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