Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight [electronic resource] / by Victor Gaudioso ; edited by Tracy Brown, Ben Renow-Clarke, Corbin Collins, Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh.

Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment -- The Blend Integrated Development Environment -- C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming -- Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding -- Timed Storyboards: Creating a Newton Cradle Application -- Using VSM and Blend 4s State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player -- Behaviors in Silverlight -- The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors -- Events and EventHandlers -- Classes and Interfaces -- Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls -- Writing a Custom Content Panel -- Writing ailverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser Application with Elevated Trust and the New Silverlight 4 COM API -- Creating a Photobooth Application with the Silverlight 4 Webcam API -- MVVM: Model-View-ViewModel -- SketchFlow Prototyping -- New Features of Silverlight 4.

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft's technology. You'll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 integrated development environment (IDE), and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time. At the end, you'll put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 4 website. Whether you're an experienced .NET or web developer, or you're just starting out, this book will provide you with all you need to create RIAs with Expression Blend 4. Develop stunning RIAs in a short time using Blend 4 and Silverlight 4. Learn basic object-oriented programming principles. Get familiar with the Blend 4 development environment.

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