Building on Your Silverlight Knowledge

Total Running Time: 230 min

You’ve learned the basics of XAML. You can build simple applications, but you know there must be more to using Silverlight creatively. You’re right—Silverlight 4 is a big topic, and even building the simplest applications requires some detailed learning.

This set of sessions by long-time trainer, programmer, and writer Ken Getz provides important skills that you’ll need to create effective Silverlight applications. You’ll learn to use resources and styles, so that you can take advantage of ways in which XAML stores information about the elements in your code, and so you can minimize the redundancy in your markup. You’ll learn to bind properties of objects to other dependency properties, minimizing the amount of event-handling code you have to write. And you’ll get a simple introduction to a complex topic—2D animation. You’ll see how to change a property value over time, providing for simple animation in Silverlight applications.

Session 1: Using Resources and Styles in Silverlight

Session 2: Bind Anything to Anything in Silverlight

Session 3: A Gentle Introduction to 2D Animation in Silverlight