Book description
Everything .NET developers need to take advantage of Silverlight 4
Silverlight 4 is a major new release of Microsoft's flagship product
for building rich, interactive applications that combine animation,
graphics, audio, and video. This book, by seasoned Wrox authors and
Silverlight experts, gives professional Web developers all the tools
necessary to build RIAs using the new Silverlight capabilities. You
will gain a complete, thorough understanding of both core and advanced
platform concepts, with examples in C#.
Professional Silverlight 4 prepares Web developers to take full
advantage of the newest release of the most popular platform for
developing rich interactive applications.
Coverage Includes:
- Introduction to Silverlight
- Building Applications with Visual Studio
- Building Applications with Expression Blend 4
- Working with the Navigation Framework
- Controlling Layout with Panels
- Working with Visual Controls
- Accessing Data
- WCF RIA Services
- Out-of-Browser Experiences
- Networking Applications
- Building Line of Business Applications
- Application Architecture
- DOM Interaction
- Securing Your Applications
- Accessing Audio and Video Devices
- Working with File I/O
- Using Graphics and Visuals
- Working with Animations in Silverlight
- Working with Text
- Making It Richer with Media
- Styling and Themes
Jason Beres
is Vice President, Product Management at Infragistics. He is an active
.NET user group supporter, an INETA Speaker, and has written multiple
books on .NET technologies.
Bill Evjen is one of the most active proponents of .NET
technologies. He is the founder of the International .NET Association
(INETA), author and coauthor of more than two dozen books, and Global
Head of Platform Architecture at Thomson Reuters, Lipper.
Devin Rader works at Infragistics where he focuses on
delivering greater user experiences to developers using their
controls. He's also a former INETA board member.
