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Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight
von: Victor Gaudioso
Apress, 2011
ISBN: 9781430229742 , 440 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen
Preis: 36,99 EUR
Table of Contents
6
About the Author
13
About the Cover Image Designer
14
Acknowledgments
15
Introduction
16
Who this Book Is For
16
What this Book Will Teach You
16
What Are Silverlight/Blend 4, C#, and XAML?
17
Using Visual Studio and Blend
17
What Silverlight Is and How It Differs from WPF
18
Online Resources
18
Layout conventions
18
Chapter 1: Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment
19
Installing Silverlight
19
Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010
19
Installing the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
20
Installing Expression Blend 4
20
Creating Your Very First Silverlight Application
20
Giving Your First Silverlight 4 Application Some Functionality
24
Summary
26
Chapter 2: The Blend Integrated Development Environment
27
New Features in Blend 4
27
The Blend 4 Toolbar
28
The Selection Tool
30
The Direct Selection Tool
30
The Pen/Pencil Tools
31
The Pan Tool
33
The Zoom Tool
33
The Eyedropper Tool
33
The Paint Bucket Tool
34
The Brush Transform and Gradient Tools
34
The Gradient Tool
34
The Brush Transform Tool
37
The Shape Tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, and Line
37
Layout Controls
38
Text Controls and Text Input Controls
39
Input Controls
39
The Asset Library Last Used tool
40
The Asset Library
40
The Objects and Timeline Panel
41
The Project Panel
42
The Properties Panel
43
The Brushes bucket
44
Creating the Color Resource
46
Using the New BlackToWhite Color Resource
48
Using OpacityMasks to Create a Reflection Effect
50
The Appearance Bucket
53
The Layout Bucket
54
The Common Properties Bucket
55
The Text Bucket
56
The Transform Bucket
56
The Miscellaneous Bucket
57
Search
58
The Resources Panel
58
Blend Development Views and Workspaces
59
Design View
59
XAML View
60
Split View
60
Workspaces
61
The Design Workspace
61
The Animation Workspace
61
Summary
67
Chapter 3: C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming
68
C# and the .NET Framework
68
The .NET CLR
69
Why C#?
69
Encapsulation
69
Classes
70
Inheritance
71
Modularity
71
Maintainability
72
Automatic Garbage Collection
72
Language Integrated Query
72
XML documentation
72
XAML
73
A Simple OOP Project
75
Summary
87
Chapter 4: Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding
88
The Grid
88
The Canvas
93
The StackPanel
95
The Border
97
Item Controls
98
Input Controls
102
New Silverlight 4 Controls
103
The Viewbox
103
The RichTextBox Control
105
Flow Direction
107
Improved Data Binding
110
DependencyObject Binding
110
Data Validation and Data Binding
110
String Format, TargetNullValue, and FallbackValue
110
Summary
111
Chapter 5: Timed Storyboards: Creating a Newton Cradle Application
112
What Are Storyboards?
113
Creating a Simple Storyboard
113
Storyboard Animation Types
118
Color
118
Point
118
Double
118
Creating the Newton’s Cradle Application
120
Behaviors
135
Implementing the ControlStoryboardAction Behavior
135
Summary
138
Chapter 6: Using VSM and Blend 4’s State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player
140
The Visual State Manager (VSM)
141
Using Blend 4’s States Panel
142
A Simple Silverlight Project
143
Creating a Media Player Using VSM
149
Creating the Silverlight Project in Blend 4
150
Designing the Navigation Orb
151
Creating the Backplate for the MediaElement
160
Adding the MediaElement
167
Positioning the Navigation Buttons and the Backplate
173
Adding a Reflection
173
Adding the States
175
Using Behaviors to Trigger the MouseEnter and MouseLeave States
178
Adding Easing Functions to Animations to Make Them More Realistic and Fun
181
Adding Behaviors to Add the Play, Pause, and Stop Functionality
182
Summary
184
Chapter 7: Behaviors in Silverlight
186
What Are Behaviors?
186
Using Behaviors
187
Creating Your Own Simple Behavior
196
Summary
205
Chapter 8: The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors
206
Choosing Between Silverlight and Flash for Video
207
Choosing Silverlight
207
Choosing Flash
208
Creating the Silverlight Video Player Application
209
Summary
237
Chapter 9: Events and EventHandlers
238
Creating the EventsAndEventHandlers project
238
Click
240
Mouse Events
241
MouseEnter and MouseLeave
243
MouseEnter
243
MouseLeave
245
MouseLeftButtonDown
246
MouseLeftButtonUp
248
New Events in Silverlight 4
249
Right-Click
249
MouseWheel
252
Drop Target Events
253
Summary
259
Chapter 10: Classes and Interfaces
260
Static Classes vs. Concrete Classes
260
Abstract Classes
261
Sealed Classes
261
Partial Classes
262
Singleton Classes
262
Private vs. Public Access Modifiers (Public and Private Classes)
262
Internal Classes
263
Protected Classes
263
Interfaces
263
Summary
273
Chapter 11: Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls
274
Understanding the ControlTemplate
275
Creating a Button ControlTemplate with a Style
275
Creating ResourceDictionaries
279
Overriding Default Styles for Controls
281
Adding Your Button Style to Your Resource Dictionary
285
Creating Custom UserControls
285
Demystifying the DependencyProperty
292
Summary
298
Chapter 12: Writing a Custom Content Panel
299
Creating the Project
300
Summary
317
Chapter 13: Writing a Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser Application with Elevated Trust and the New Silverlight 4 COM API
318
Creating an Out-Of-Browser Silverlight 4 Application
319
Summary
333
Chapter 14: Creating a Photobooth Applicationwith the Silverlight 4 Webcam API
334
Creating the Application
335
Setting Up the Visuals in Expression Blend
336
Using the MouseDragElementBehavior to make items draggable
341
Adding the Buttons
342
Starting and Displaying the Webcam
344
Taking the Snapshot
347
Saving the Image
349
Adding the Draggable Items to the Saved Image
351
Summary
355
Chapter 15: MVVM: Model-View-ViewModel
356
Overview
356
History of MVVM
357
Data Binding, DataTemplates, and Commanding
357
Model
358
View
358
ViewModel
358
MVVM Features in Silverlight 4
359
Creating Your First MVVM Application in Blend 4
359
Overview of the MVVM Template Project
361
Creating Supporting Objects
362
Setting Up the ViewModel
365
Setting Up the Sample Data Source
367
Setting Up the View
371
MVVM Toolkits and Frameworks for Silverlight
381
Summary
382
Chapter 16: SketchFlow Prototyping
383
Create the Project
383
Setting Up the SketchFlow Structure
385
Adding the Visuals
387
Creating a Navigation Component Screen
389
Connecting to the Nav Component Screen
392
Adding Some Interaction to the Pages
393
Adding the Visual State Group
395
Hooking the Visual States Up
396
The SketchFlow Player and Feedback
398
Word Documentation
403
Summary
405
Chapter 17: New Features of Silverlight 4
406
Right-click and Mouse Wheel Support
407
The Printing API
407
ICommand Support
410
Addition of the RichTextArea Control
411
Clipboard API
411
Network Authentication
411
Improved Data Binding
412
Addition of ViewBox
413
Keyboard Access in Full-screen Mode
413
Google Chrome Support
413
Right-to-Left Support
413
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
415
Offline Digital Rights Management (DRM)
415
Fluid UI Support in Items Controls
415
Cross-Domain Networking Made Easier
415
TextTrimming
415
Summary
416
Index
417
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