Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight - Brossura

Gaudioso, Victor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1430219505 ISBN 13: 9781430219507

Casa editrice: Apress, 2010

Riassunto

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 Integrated Development Environment, 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 Integrated Development Environments (IDE).
• Learn how to create stunning animations using Silverlight 3 Storyboards.
• Learn how to incorporate video and sound into your RIAs with the Silverlight MediElement.
• 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 MediElement
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

Su questo libro

L'autore

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.

Contenuti

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Apress
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1430219505
• ISBN 13: 9781430219507
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 368