Silverlight 3 Development

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft Silverlight 3 applications through a variety of available development tools and techniques. It introduces the new features and concepts being introduced with the new version of the technology. The course focuses on user interfaces, program structure and implementation details.

This course is intended for both novice and experienced .NET programmers who have a minimum of six months development experience and have basic Windows navigation skills.

Working knowledge of C#, HTML and JavaScript. Highly recommended: web development knowledge (web development basics will not be covered in this course)

• Introduction to Silverlight
• Silverlight XAML and XAML editing tools
• Silverlight application architecture, “Hello World!” with Silverlight
• Available controls
• Handling and publishing events
• Transformations
• Animations
• Silverlight 3 Text Features
• Behaviors
• Managing XAML objects
• Creating XAML objects from managed code, Managing XAML objects from managed code
• Silverlight user controls and custom controls
• Control templates and styles
• Dependency Properties
• Data binding
• Visual State Manager
• Networking