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

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

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

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Overview of Silverlight

What is Microsoft Silverlight

Setting up your development environment

Introducing XAML

Content controls

Namespaces

Naming your objects

Setting properties

The Silverlight application model

Integrating Silverlight with HTML

Using the object tag

Using the JavaScript helper files

In and out-of-browser support

Summary

2. Laying out Our User Interface

Arranging content with panels

Creating your first Silverlight application

Grid

Star sizing

Absolute sizing

Auto sizing

Placing content into a grid

Changing the grid layout dynamically

StackPanel

Canvas

Setting the Canvas properties from code behind

Border

ScrollViewer

ViewBox

Controlling the visibility

Using core and content controls

Using core controls

TextBox

TextBlock

Buttons

Button

HyperlinkButton

ToggleButton

CheckBox

RadioButton

Using content controls

Creating user controls

Creating your first user control

The navigation framework

Adding new pages

Navigation events

NavigationService

The UriMapper class

The journal

Implementing caching

Displaying a collection of items

ItemsControl

ListBox

ComboBox

TreeView

DataGrid

Displaying data in DataGrid

DataGrid templating

Sorting

Playing media files

The MediaElement control

Digital Rights Management

Working with audio files

AudioStreamCount and AudioStreamIndex

Balance

Volume

IsMuted

Displaying closed captioning

Test your knowledge

Summary

3. Enhancing the User Interface

Creating or modifying the control styles

Styling at the element level

Styling at the page level

Explicit styling

Implicit styling

BasedOn styling

Styling at the global level

Styles hierarchy

Creating control templates

TemplateBinding

Showing the content

The ContentPresenter element

The ItemPresenter element

Attaching the style

Creating or modifying data templates

Creating your first data template

DataForm templates

Using UserControl as a data template

Manipulating visuals

Getting ready

Skew transform

Rotate transform

Scale transform

Translate transform

Perspective transforms

Grouping transformations together

Pixel shaders

Animating visuals

Creating storyboards

Controlling the storyboard

Repeating and reversing storyboards

Implementing easing functions

Configuring bitmap caching

Implementing behaviors

Triggering storyboards by using behaviors

Creating your own behavior

Managing the visual state

Test your knowledge

Summary

4. Implementing Application Logic

Handling events

Adding events

Handling routed events

The AddHandler method

Consuming services asynchronously

Adding your first service reference

Configuring service endpoint

Handling timeouts

Cross-domain networking

Working with background threads

Spawning a background thread to execute code

Creating your first BackgroundWorker

Using the Dispatcher object

Working with the DispatcherTimer object

Working with dependency properties

The structure of dependency properties

Creating your first dependency property

Interacting with attached properties

Implementing ICommand

Building your first ICommand

Test your knowledge

Summary

5. Working with Data

Implementing data binding

Setting DataContext

Binding data sets to controls

Binding elements to other elements

The INotifyPropertyChanged interface

Setting a fallback value

Formatting data

Creating and consuming value converters

Creating your first converter

Passing parameters to the value converter

Implementing data validation

Using exception-based validation

Implementing the IDataErrorInfo interface

Implementing the INotifyDataErrorInfo interface

Test your knowledge

Summary

6. Interacting with the Host Platform

Implementing the printing API

Creating your first print job

Printing multiple pages with page numbers

Creating out-of-browser applications

Creating your first out-of-browser application

Checking network connectivity

Displaying toast notifications

Checking and updating application versions

Displaying HTML content in an OOB application

Accessing the isolated storage

Increasing the isolated storage size

Interacting with the DOM

Accessing cookies and query strings

Communication between JavaScript and Silverlight

Manipulating the HTML DOM

Silverlight to Silverlight communication

Creating a local communication demo application

Accessing the clipboard

Reading from and writing to the host filesystem

Handling alternative input methods

Handling the mouse wheel

Test your knowledge

Summary

7. Structuring Applications

Creating and consuming resource dictionaries

Utilizing sample data for a item template

Changing a property's type

Selecting and merging resource dictionaries

Merged resource dictionaries

Implementing localization and globalization

Working with resource files

Forcing local

Setting the culture using the Silverlight plugin HTML

Setting the culture using a converter

Handling application-level events

Test your knowledge

Summary

8. Deploying Applications

Configuring the Silverlight plugin

Passing initialization parameters

Setting the plugin size

windowless mode

Setting a custom splash page

Creating your own splash screen

Dynamically loading application resources

Using assembly caching

Downloading and extracting content from ZIP files

Creating a client access policy

Test your knowledge

Summary

A. 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

Index