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 / Johnny Tordgeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tordgeman, Johnny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silverlight (Electronic resource).

Multimedia systems--Examinations--Study guides.

Multimedia systems.

Web sites--Design--Examinations--Study guides.

Web sites.

Application software--Development--Examinations--Study guides.

Application software.

Web site development--Computer programs--Examinations--Study guides.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Tordgeman Johnny: Johnny Tordgeman is the CTO of E4D Solutions Ltd. , a boutique development and consulting firm in Israel. Johnny specializes in architecting enterprise-level solutions built on top of Microsoft's SharePoint platform. Johnny utilizes the latest in web technology and methodology in his solutions, such as HTML5, SPA, and MVC4. Johnny is the author of MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide, Packt Publishing, which was published in 2012. Johnny is a skilled lecturer and a Microsoft-certified trainer and can be found speaking at various conferences, open houses, and user groups. You can always find Johnny at http: //blog. johnnyt. me, on Twitter at @JTordgeman, and on LinkedIn at http: //www. linkedin. com/in/johnnytor.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2: Laying out Our User Interface; Arranging content with panels; Creating your first Silverlight application; Grid

StackPanelCanvas; Border; ScrollViewer; ViewBox; Controlling the visibility; Using core and content controls; Using core controls; TextBox; TextBlock; Buttons; 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 filesAudioStreamCount and AudioStreamIndex; Balance; Volume; IsMuted; Displaying closed captioning; Test your knowledge; Summary; Chapter 3: Enhancing the User Interface; Creating or modifying the control styles; Styling on 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 templateDataForm 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; Create your own behavior; Managing the visual state; Test your knowledge; Summary

Chapter 4: Implementing Application LogicHandle events; Adding events; Handling routed events; The AddHandler method; Consuming services asynchronously; Adding your first service reference; Configuring service endpoint; Handle 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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613775528

9781281090164

1281090166

9781849684675

1849684677

OCLC:

798535901