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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

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.

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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide
Johnny Tordgeman
Jun, 2012 | 290 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Working with Data
Working with Data
Implementing data binding
Formatting data
Creating and consuming value converters
Implementing data validation
Test your knowledge
Summary
6
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
7
Structuring Applications
Structuring Applications
Creating and consuming resource dictionaries
Implementing localization and globalization
Handling application-level events
Test your knowledge
Summary
8
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

Chapter 3. Enhancing the User Interface

Armed with the knowledge from the previous chapter, we will continue to dive deep into the user interface layer of Silverlight. While the previous chapter dealt with the core concepts of laying a user interface in Silverlight, in this chapter we are going to discuss some of the more 'fun' features of Silverlight, such as templates, animations, and behaviors. Just like before, we have a lot to cover, so let's get started!

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating or modifying the control styles

  • Creating control templates

  • Creating or modifying data templates

  • Manipulating visuals

  • Animating visuals

  • Implementing behaviors

  • Managing the visual state

Creating or modifying the control styles

Just like in real life, first impressions mean a lot. When your users need to fill out a form for example, which is more likely to get their attention, the plain old vanilla form or a customized styled form? The answer in most cases is a customized one.

Take...

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