Instant Silverlight 5 Animation -- Table of Contents -- Instant Silverlight 5 Animation -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What is Silverlight -- Why should I use Silverlight -- What is the downside of using Silverlight -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Notes on the samples -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Building Blocks of Animation -- Spinning control sample -- Defining a dependency property in C# code -- Defining visual presentation for spinning control -- Bindings -- Transforms -- Storyboards and animations -- Adding a rotation animation to our code -- A brief overview of different Silverlight animation classes -- Attached properties -- Summary -- 2. Animations in Business Logic Silverlight Applications -- Animating Silverlight controls -- Tools for animating controls -- Animating a built-in button -- Creating and animating custom button control -- Animating navigation panels -- Summary -- 3. Creating Animated Textures -- Background on Perlin noise -- A bit of history -- Perlin noise algorithm -- Multi-scale Perlin noise -- Basic Perlin noise -- Perlin noise algorithm implementation -- ImageProcessingLibrary -- Cloud simulation -- Fire simulation -- Summary -- 4. 3D Animations in Silverlight -- Perspective transform -- Silverlight 5 three-dimensional functionality -- 3D models -- Vertex and pixel shaders -- Compiling pixel shaders -- Enabling your Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Studio 2012 to create and compile shaders -- Adding shader compilation to your Visual Studio 2010 SP1 project.

Adding shader compilation to your Visual Studio 2012 project -- Creating the moving triangle application -- The moving prism application -- The 3D related topics that were left out -- Summary -- 5. Building an Animated Banner -- What we aim to build -- The globe image -- Perspective transform -- Code description -- Referring to the globe image within an XAML file -- Creating rotating lines of text -- Animation storyboard -- Placing the Silverlight banner within an HTML file -- Summary -- A. Creating and starting a Silverlight project -- B. Changing the XAML formatting -- C. Installing snippets -- D. Using snippets -- Index.