Silverlight skills, tips, tutorials and links

Silverlight skills, tips, tutorials and links

[Original address] Silverlight tips, tricks, tutorials and links page

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Getting started

• Silverlight 2 Overview: I suggest you read this post first, if you are planning to start Silverlight 2 development. This article not only gives a high-level description of the functions provided by Silverlight 2, but also links to a series of eight posts. This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Digg client routine. These tutorials provide a good introduction to the concepts of Silverlight 2 and WPF development.

• Use expression blend to develop a Silverlight 2 Application -- Overview: We recommend that you download expression blend 2.5 preview in August, following the steps described in this tutorial. I think it demonstrates some common functions of expression blend and uses it to build an IM chat client routine.

• Unit Testing with Silverlight 2: Jeff Wilcox from the Silverlight development team has an excellent post on how to use the unit test framework in the Silverlight SDK to unit test the Silverlight 2 application.

Introductory lecture

• Building rich Internet applications with Silverlight (Part 1 and 2): Joe Stegman and Mike harsh gave a two-part lecture on how to use Silverlight to build applications. You can use the link above to watch the video of their lectures and download related handouts and demonstration routines.

• Creating rich, dynamic user interfaces with Silverlight 2 controls: Karen Corby has a great lecture on mix 08, explaining style, control template, user control, and so on. You can run and download her complete Flickr application here.

• My Silverlight getting started Lecture: you can download the handouts and examples of my recent "Silverlight 2 getting started" lecture in Arizona. Please use them in your own lecture at will.

Document Link

• Silverlight 2 Quickstart Tutorials: These demo tutorials are useful when getting started with Silverlight.

• Silverlight 2 Developer poster: download and print the Silverlight 2 Developer poster.

• Silverlight control source and unit tests: Shawn Burke provides the source code of the built-in Silverlight control and links to related unit tests.

• Msdn Silverlight 2 beta1 online documentation: This webpage provides a link to the official Silverlight 2 documentation. You can download the offline version here.

Tutorials and routines

• "How do I? "With Silverlight: this link connects to a webpage containing a bunch of Silverlight 2 video tutorials.

• Hard Rock memorabilia sample: Scott Stanfield from vertigo software discusses the cool hard rock memorabilia website built with Silverlight 2 released in March.

• Using Deep zoom with Silverlight 2: Jacek ciereszko has a good blog post describing how to use the "Deep zoom" feature of Silverlight 2 to achieve image amplification similar to the Hard Rock routine.

• Game programming with Silverlight: Mike snow is building an eleven-part blog series to discuss how to use Silverlight to develop online games.

• Homepage "link cloud" Application: Jeff Wilcox discusses a cool Tag Cloud application he built.

Deployment experience

• Providing a great Silverlight deployment experience: Tim Heuer has a good post to discuss the technology you can use to optimize the Silverlight installation experience.

• Using Silverlight 2 on a production Web server: Brad Abrams has a good post to discuss several things to be aware of when copying Silverlight. xap files to the IIS web server.

Control Template

• Creating a custom skin for Silverlight's button control: A great post on Matt berseth to discuss the skin and style functions of the Silverlight control.

• Writing a templated Silverlight control: Shawn Burke has a special post describing how to create a custom Silverlight template control.

• Improving access to Silverlight's generic. XAML resources (also read Part 2): David Anson has a great tool to demonstrate how to view and extract the default XAML style of the built-in Silverlight control.

ListBox and scrollviewer scenarios

• Ultimate ListBox and scrollviewer Frequently Asked Questions guide: David Anson, Silverlight ListBox and scrollviewer controls developers compile this great article. FAQs about all these controls and scenarios where you can use them.

• Cool (wacky) uses of The ListBox and scrollviewer controls: Another wonderful post by David Anson, showing the flexibility of data and control templates.

DataGrid scenario

• Using the Silverlight DataGrid and defining columns for a Silverlight DataGrid: Scott Morrison started a series of excellent posts describing how to use the new Silverlight 2 DataGrid Control (he is the supervisor of the relevant project, absolutely proficient !)

• Using Silverlight 2's DataGrid with WCF + LINQ to SQL: This 15-minute video blog demonstrates how to build a LINQ to SQL object model on the server, and then publish it using WCF, then demonstrate how to build a Silverlight client that uses the new Silverlight DataGrid Control. The client calls the WCF Service to obtain the data in the LINQ to SQL and binds it to the DataGrid.

• Simple editing of Web Service data in a DataGrid: Mike taulty has a good post to demonstrate how to build a WCF Service on the server, and then use it from the Silverlight 2 client to obtain data and bind it to the DataGrid, you can update data rows, add or delete data rows, and then use Silverlight 2 beta1 to save the data to the server.

• Sorting with Silverlight 2's DataGrid Control: the DataGrid Control in Silverlight 2 beta1 has no built-in column data sorting support (which will be provided in beta2), but this does not prevent Matt berseth! In this post, he shows how to use a customized header column method for sorting. Also, let's take a look at the post of Matt. This article provides a DataGrid test page that shows several features of the current DataGrid.

Web services and networking

• Web services and Silverlight: this useful post discusses how to use web services in Silverlight and provides links to related Quick Start routines and documents.

• Calling web services with Silverlight 2 (Part 1) and (Part 2): some great posts by Tim Heuer about how to use Silverlight to call Web Services.

Video scenario

• Encoding video for Microsoft Silverlight delivery: Ben Waggoner gave a lecture on mix 08 to discuss best practices for coding Silverlight videos.

Accessibility and compatibility 508

• Accessibility in Silverlight 2: Mark Rideout from the Silverlight development team discusses accessibility support in Silverlight 2 and how to use Silverlight to build an accessible solution compatible with Section 508.

I hope this article will help you,

Scott

 

Reprinted: http://blog.joycode.com/scottgu/archive/2008/04/04/115048.aspx