2012
Pro Silverlight 5 in VBAuthors:

• Matthew Macdonald
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ISBN: 978-1-4302-3518-7 (Print) 978-1-4302-3519-4  (Online)







MacDonald, Matthew

4th ed. 2012, 976 p.

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ISBN 978-1-4302-3518-7

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About this book

• Presented with copious graphics and screenshots provide the clearest possible explanation of Silverlight 5’s highly visual tools and output.      Builds on the proven success of this book and adds full coverage of the technology’s new features.      Written by Matthew MacDonald, an author with a strong track record of producing industry-leading Silverlight, ASP and WPF books going back many years.
  

Silverlight 5 is the latest iteration of Microsoft's cross-browser technology for creating rich user experiences on the Web. Like its predecessor, Silverlight 4, it rides atop the .NET Framework for maximum ease of use and coding efficiency. The new technology carries forward much of the work that has been done before and augments it in many important respects, including support for H.264 video, major improvements to the graphics engine (including true 3D rendering), and much richer data-binding options for interfacing with other applications.

Pro Silverlight 5 in VB is an invaluable reference for professional developers wanting to discover the new features of Silverlight. Author Matthew MacDonald's expert advice guides you through creating rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in—no matter what the target platform. As you learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D and 3D drawing, animations, and media playback, you'll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next-generation Windows applications.

Table of contents

• Introducing Silverlight
• XAML
• Layout
• Dependency Properties and Routed Events
• Elements
• The Application Model
• Navigation
• Shapes and Geometries
• Brushes and Transforms
• Animation
• Sound, Video, and Deep Zoom
• Styles and Behaviors
• Templates and Custom Controls
• Browser Integration
• ASP.NET and Web Services
• Data Binding
• Data Controls
• File Access
• Multithreading
• Networking
• Out-of-Browser Applications
  

• Authors & Editors
  

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly- remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.