Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Introduction

Part I: Silverlight Fundamentals for ASP.NET Developers

Chapter 1: Silverlight in a Nutshell

Uphill Struggle

Rich Client or Web Reach?

Silverlight Steps In

The Impact of Silverlight on Your Existing ASP.NET Real Estate

What You Should Still Do in ASP.NET

The Development Environment Overview

Summary

Chapter 2: Silverlight Architecture

Client/Server Architecture Overview

Platforms

Architecture

ASP.NET Integration

Application Life Cycle

Summary

Chapter 3: XAML Condensed

Why All ASP.NET Developers Should Know the Basics

XAML Syntax and Terminology

Piecing It All Together

Summary

Chapter 4: Programming Silverlight

How a Silverlight Application Is Composed

JavaScript -- How Much You Need to Know

JavaScript -- The Basics

The Silverlight Object Model

Events, Threading, and Browser Interaction

Part II: Developing ASP.NET Applications with Silverlight

Chapter 5: Creating the User Interface

Expression Suite -- A Whirlwind Tour

ASP.NET versus Silverlight Layout

Summary

Chapter 6: Silverlight Controls

Introduction to Silverlight Controls

Media Controls

Silverlight Toolkit Controls


Summary

Chapter 7: Styles and Templates

Styles

Templating

Integrating with ASP.NET

ImplicitStyleManager

Summary

Chapter 8: User Interaction

The Silverlight Interaction Context

Navigation

Summary

Chapter 9: Communicating with the ServerSilverlight Networking and Communication Features

Cross-Domain Support

Creating Services for Silverlight

Calling Services with Silverlight

Calling REST APIsSummary

Chapter 10: Working with Data

Data Framework

Data-Binding Essentials

Retrieving and Storing Data

Data Controls

Manipulating Data

LINQ

LINQ to XML

Validation

Summary.

Chapter 11: Creating Custom Controls

User Controls

Customizing Current Controls

Custom Controls

Summary

Chapter 12: Securing Your

Jonathan Swift worked as an Application Development Consultant for Microsoft in the United Kingdom for a number of years and now finds himself managing the team. This means that he spends most of his time traveling around the country helping clients utilize Microsoft developer technologies effectively. Jonathan has been programming for more than 13 years and has worked with numerous technologies, including but not limited to C, C++, Visual Basic, COM, COM+, SQL, ASP, and, of course, all aspects of .NET. As well as programming, Jonathan also spent part of his career working as a Microsoft Trainer, delivering the full suite of Microsoft Official Curriculum courses and specially-designed courses also.

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Chris Barker works as an Application Development Consultant for Microsoft in the United Kingdom (www.microsoft.com/uk/adc). He spends his days traveling around the country visiting customers and consulting on development practices on the Microsoft platform. More recently, his interest has been captured by RIA development, and as a result, he has delivered several customer workshops on Silverlight. Away from the office, Chris likes to get out and about in his home county of Derbyshire, riding a bike, kicking a football, and sinking a few pints of real ale.

Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Connected Systems) is a .NET development instructor and architecture consultant at Interface Technical Training (www.interfacett.com). Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers web site (www.xmlforasp.net), which focuses on using ASP.NET, Silverlight, AJAX, and XML Web Services in