MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide. A compact certification guide to help you prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam with this book and

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• MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide
  • Table of Contents
  • 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 propertys 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

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