About This Training Course

In this course, you will learn about Microsoft Silverlight, the new cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in that helps you deliver rich interactive Web applications. Youll see what Silverlight 1.0 plug-in was designed for, and how 2 takes Silverlight to the next level. Youll learn how the coding of a Web page using Silverlight 2 works with .NET, AJAX and other Web-based applications.

Subjects Covered

"Silverlight at a Glance
- Starvation of the current Web architecture
- Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
- Silverlight vs. Smart Client vs. AJAX
- What's a Silverlight application?
- The plug-in
- Hosting Silverlight in Web pages
- Visual Studio 2008 ad hoc tools

Mechanics of a Silverlight 2 Application
- XAML and code-behind
- Auto-generated properties
- Dynamically generated XAML
- XAP packages
- Manifests and assembly parts
- Downloading XAML content on the fly
- Loading process

The Browser Interoperability Layer
- Silverlight and the browser
- Accessing the page DOM from Silverlight
- HtmlPage and browser information
- Accessing XAML elements from JavaScript
- Silverlight handlers for HTML elements
- Invoking Silverlight code from HTML
- Scriptable and creatable objects

WPF over the Web
- WPF and Silverlight
- Layout capabilities
- WPF controls
- Styles and templates
- Silverlight Controls
- Resources
- Data binding

The Silverlight Base Class Library
- Introducing LINQ
- Using LINQ on collections
- Threading
- BackgroundWorker
- Timers

Local Storage
- Purposes of isolated storage
- Reading and writing files and folders
- OpenFileDialog
- Managing the quota
- Occasionally connected applications

Working with XML
- A quick look at the XML cursor model
- Creating XML files
- Reading XML files
- LINQ-to-XML
- Application settings

Networking
- Making simple Web calls
- Posting data
- Synchronous calls (deadlocks if you use monitors)
- Cross-domain proxy
- Sockets to push data to the client

Invoking Application Services
- Invoking WCF services
- Async calls
- Security of the application services

The Security Model
- Beyond CAS
- Attribute-based security
- Transparent code and SafeCritical code
- Security through inheritance

From WPF to Silverlight
- Reusing the XAML and code-behind
- Separation of concerns (SoC)
- Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM)"

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have experience with a .NET programming language, as well as a working knowledge of Web development techniques, tools and frameworks.