Programming Solutions with Microsoft Silverlight 5

This workshop gives you a kick-start in Silverlight development. You learn the foundations of Silverlight 5.0 to write both business- as well as consumer-related applications. Part of this workshop is communication to WCF Services, RIA Services, using the WebCam, OOB applications, 3-D, new data-binding capabilities, and more

Introduction to Silverlight 5
- Silverlight vs WPF vs Moonlight vs ASP.NET vs AJAX
- XAML
- Tools
Design
- Layout Elements
- Drawing
- Transformations and Animations
- Design Tools
Development
- Hosting
- Application-Structure
- Silverlight BCL
- Media
- Threading
- Isolated Storage
Controls
- Simple Controls
- Content Controls
- List Controls
- Styles and Templates
- User and Custom Controls
Data Access
- Data Binding
- Entity Framework
- WCF Services
- WCF RIA Services
ASP.NET Integration
- Calling JavaScript from Silverlight
- Calling Silverlight from JavaScript
Applications
- Out-of-browser
- Printing
- Elevated Trust
- Webcam / Microphone
- COM Integration
- Commands
- MVVM Pattern
- MEF
Moonlight

"Nicely structured, nicely explained, very good training!", George Mihaescu