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

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

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By: Johnny Tordgeman
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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.
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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Overview of Silverlight
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Overview of Silverlight
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What is Microsoft Silverlight
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Introducing XAML
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The Silverlight application model
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Integrating Silverlight with HTML
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In and out-of-browser support
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Summary
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Laying out Our User Interface
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Laying out Our User Interface
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Arranging content with panels
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Using core and content controls
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Creating user controls
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The navigation framework
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Displaying a collection of items
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Playing media files
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Enhancing the User Interface
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Enhancing the User Interface
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Creating or modifying the control styles
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Creating control templates
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Creating or modifying data templates
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Manipulating visuals
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Animating visuals
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Implementing behaviors
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Managing the visual state
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Implementing Application Logic
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Implementing Application Logic
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Handling events
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Consuming services asynchronously
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Working with background threads
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Working with dependency properties
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Interacting with attached properties
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Implementing ICommand
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Working with Data
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Working with Data
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Implementing data binding
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Formatting data
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Creating and consuming value converters
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Implementing data validation
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Interacting with the Host Platform
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Interacting with the Host Platform
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Implementing the printing API
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Creating out-of-browser applications
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Accessing the isolated storage
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Interacting with the DOM
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Accessing the clipboard
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Reading from and writing to the host filesystem
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Handling alternative input methods
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Structuring Applications
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Structuring Applications
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Creating and consuming resource dictionaries
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Implementing localization and globalization
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Handling application-level events
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Deploying Applications
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Deploying Applications
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Configuring the Silverlight plugin
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Dynamically loading application resources
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Creating a client access policy
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Test Your Knowledge — Answers
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Test Your Knowledge — Answers
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Chapter 2: Laying out Our User Interface
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Chapter 3: Enhancing the User Interface
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Chapter 4: Implementing Application Logic
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Chapter 5: Working with Data
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Chapter 6: Interacting with the Host Platform
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Chapter 7: Structuring Applications
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Chapter 8: Deploying Applications

Implementing localization and globalization

When building an application, we usually strive to reach as big an audience as possible. Localizing our application to different languages can surely help us boost our audience. Just like most .NET-based applications, localization in Silverlight is done through the use of resource files. Resource files are files based on key-value pairs where each pair represents a string, an image, or other types of resources such as audio and icons. We will discuss how to use resource files in just a moment. New to Silverlight 4 is the native support of right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, which makes it far easier to localize an application to these languages. Other than strings, resource files can also hold dates or images.

Working with resource files

To get started, open the Chapter7-RESX project in Visual Studio 2010. The project can be found in the downloadable content of the book, which is available at www.packtpub.com.

The project's UI is...

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