Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Skills needed -- A special note for ASP.NET developers -- A special note for Windows Forms developers -- A special note for WPF developers -- A special note for Flash/FLEX developers -- New concepts of Silverlight -- Separation of presentation and Logic -- XAML: Relax it's just XML -- Dependency properties -- Bumps along the road to Silverlight bliss -- GIF files need not apply -- Visibility != Boolean -- It's Button.Content, not Button.Text -- But wait, there's more! -- Tools needed -- Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 -- Silverlight runtime -- Silverlight toolkit -- Expression Blend -- Other useful tools -- Deep Zoom Composer -- Silverlight Spy -- Expression Design -- Expression Encoder -- InkScape -- Time for action - creating a Silverlight project -- Have a go hero -- What just happened -- Summary -- 2. Enhancing a Website with Silverlight -- Retrofitting a website -- Adding pizzazz with Silverlight -- A few words on search engine optimization -- Building a navigation control from the ground up -- Picking the right kind of container -- Stack it up: Using the StackPanel -- Time for action - building navigation buttons in Silverlight -- What just happened? -- Adding a little style with Styles -- Styles -- Time for action - adding the style -- What just happened? -- Creating applications in Expression Blend -- A crash course in Expression Blend -- An artsy Visual Studio? -- Time for action - styles revisited in Blend.

What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Skinning a control -- Time for action - Skinning a control -- What just happened? -- States of mind -- Time for action - learning the Visual State Manager -- What just happened? -- Adding event handlers -- Time for action - back to coding -- What just happened? -- Where are we really? -- Animation in Silverlight -- Time for action - animation time -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploring animation options -- Getting on the same page -- Time for action - getting Silverlight onto a web page -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 3. Adding Rich Media -- Adding media to a Silverlight project -- Time for action - adding background music -- What just happened? -- Embedding files versus referencing files -- Have a go hero - improving the experience -- Adding video to a Silverlight project -- Time for action - adding video -- What just happened? -- Using video as a brush -- Time for action - creating and using a VideoBrush -- What just happened? -- Enriching an application with audio cues -- Time for action - adding interactive sounds -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding a few more sounds -- Coding videos with Expression Media Encoder -- A tour of the workspace -- Encoding video -- A quick word on video formats -- Time for action - let's encode a video! -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - explore the other templates -- Summary -- 4. Taking the RIA Experience Further with Silverlight -- Deep Zoom -- Deep Zoom in action -- Time for action - creating a Deep Zoom photo montage -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploring the tiles -- Using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control -- Using the Map Control -- Time for action - getting started with mapping -- What just happened? -- Getting credentials -- Time for action - adding our credentials -- Taking control of the Map control.

Time for action - taking control of the Map control -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - changing the map programmatically -- Adding store locations to the map -- Time for action - adding store locations -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - re-styling a Pushpin -- What just happened? -- Drawing out ideas -- The InkPresenter control -- Capturing strokes -- Time for action - building a basic sketching application -- What just happened? -- Changing drawing attributes -- Time for action - controlling the appearance of Ink -- What just happened? -- Erasing Strokes -- Time for action - adding an erase feature -- What just happened? -- Storing Strokes in Isolated Storage -- Isolated Storage -- Time for action - adding persistence -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - where is isolated storage? -- Uploading sketches -- Asynchronous calls -- Time for action - submitting sketches -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 5. Handling Data -- Data applications -- Time for action - creating a business object -- What just happened? -- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) -- Time for action - creating a Silverlight-enabled WCF service -- What just happened? -- Collecting data -- Time for action - creating a form to collect data -- What just happened? -- Validating data -- Data object -- Time for action - creating a data object -- What just happened? -- Data binding -- Time for action - binding our data object to our controls -- What just happened? -- Validation -- Time for action - validating data input -- What just happened? -- Data submission -- Time for action - submitting data to the server -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 6. Back Office Applications -- WCF Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services -- Time for action - creating a RIA Services application -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - styling the listbox -- SharePoint.

Time for action - hosting a Silverlight application in SharePoint -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 7. Customer Service Application -- Customer data -- Time for action - creating the data model -- What just happened? -- ADO.NET Entity Framework and WCF RIA Services -- Time for action - creating the Entity Framework -- What just happened? -- User experience -- Time for action - saving customer information -- What just happened? -- Customer service -- Time for action - creating a customer lookup form -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding data validation to our customer details form -- Summary -- 8. Executive Dashboard Application -- Data visualization -- Time for action - creating the Executive Dashboard -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding more sales data -- Spreadsheet data -- Time for action - extending the Executive Dashboard -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding paging to our grid -- Summary -- 9. Delivery Application -- Creating a signature capture control -- Creating our own lookless control -- Time for action - creating a custom control -- What just happened? -- Improving the default template -- Time for action - putting the control together -- What just happened? -- Dependency properties -- The OnApplyTemplate method -- TemplateBinding -- Implementing the custom control -- Time for action - putting our lookless control to the test -- What just happened? -- Time for action - finishing the control -- What just happened? -- Mapping application -- Geocoding -- Time for action - Geocoding addresses to work -- What just happened? -- Route planning -- Time for action - adding routing to our application -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 10. Where to Go From Here -- More Silverlight features -- Checking network connectivity -- Time for action - detecting network connectivity -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - refactoring the code -- Executing outside the browser -- Enabling out of browser support -- Time for action - creating an out-of-browser solution -- What just happened? -- Time for action - checking the InstallState property -- What just happened? -- Installing a Silverlight application locally -- Deployment concerns -- Uninstalling a Silverlight application -- Beyond Silverlight -- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- When to use WPF -- Time for action - creating a WPF application -- Future of Silverlight -- Summary -- Index.