Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

675 Pages·2009·12.076 MB·English

by  Jonathan Swift, Salvador Alvarez Patuel, Chris Barker, Dan Wahlin

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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxi
Part I: Silverlight Fundamentals for ASP.NET Developers 1
Chapter 1: Silverlight in a Nutshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2: Silverlight Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3: XAML Condensed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4: Programming Silverlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Part II: Developing ASP.NET Applications with Silverlight 119
Chapter 5: Creating the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chapter 6: Silverlight Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Chapter 7: Styles and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Chapter 8: User Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Chapter 9: Communicating with the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Chapter 10: Working with Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Chapter 11: Creating Custom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Chapter 12: Securing Your Silverlight Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Chapter 13: Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Chapter 14: Graphics and Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Chapter 15: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
Chapter 16: Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621
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Silverlight™ 2 for ASP.NET Developers
Jonathan Swift
Chris Barker
Dan Wahlin
Salvador Alvarez Patuel
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To my wife, Fay.
— Jonathan Swift
In memory of Patricia Barker.
— Chris Barker
I thank my wife, Heedy, and two boys, Danny and Jeffery, for their patience, love,
and support while I was working on this book.
— Dan Wahlin
Dedicado a Marta y a mi familia.
— Salvador Alvarez Patuel
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About the Authors
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.
Jonathan tries to keep his blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanswift) up to date, but feels that
writing a book is a very good excuse for not doing so. (Other popular excuses including playing the
XBox and washing his hair.) When he’s not working, Jonathan spends all of his time with his wife and
kids, and occasionally gets to exercise his pilot’s license at the flying club.
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 Microsoft’s .NET platform. He’s also on the
INETA Speaker’s Bureau and speaks at several conferences. Dan has authored/co-authored numerous
books over the years on .NET technologies with his latest being Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and
Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers. Dan also writes for several online technical newslet-
ters, blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin, and updates what he’s up to from time to time at
www.twitter.com/danwahlin. When he’s not working with technology, he enjoys sports and writ-
ing and recording music to relax a little — http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/tags/
Music/default.aspx.
Salvador Alvarez Patuel has been in the industry for more than 13 years. Currently a senior application
development consultant (ADC) at Microsoft, helping customers to architect and build complex solutions
using Microsoft technologies in the United Kingdom. Salvador has also been delivering multiple tech-
nical sessions around EMEA on Windows Mobile development and has been answering questions on
many ask-the-experts events. Before joining Microsoft, he was the main technical architect for real-time
engines on popular auctions, TV channels, and the gaming industry. He holds a software engineering
degree from his native Argentina and a specialization in artificial intelligence. When Salva is not think-
ing about ones and zeroes, he enjoys climbing, windsurfing, and recently trying to learn how to play golf.
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