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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About this book | |
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| Introducing Silverlight | |
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| Silverlight up your life | |
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| Productivity | |
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| Performance | |
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| Portability | |
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| Why can't we be friends? | |
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| The developer experience | |
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| The designer experience | |
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| XAML | |
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| Code behind | |
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| Namespaces | |
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| Compound properties | |
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| Attached properties | |
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| Blending it together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Harmony with the web | |
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| The relationship between Silverlight and the Html Dom | |
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| The HTML Document Object Model | |
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| The Silverlight plug-in | |
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| The Silverlight Object Model | |
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| Creating a Silverlight plug-in | |
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| The Silverlight utility file: Silverlight.js | |
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| Creating an instance of the Silverlight plug-in | |
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| Integrating a Silverlight plug-in | |
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| Relating the Silverlight application to the HTML DOM | |
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| Clarifying the initial experience | |
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| Handling plug-in events | |
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| Sending initialization parameters | |
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| The Silverlight Application Model | |
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| The manifest file | |
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| The Silverlight application | |
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| Application dependencies | |
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| Interacting with the HTML DOM | |
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| Managing the web page from managed code | |
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| Working with the user's browser window | |
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| Bridging the scripting and managed code worlds | |
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| Summary | |
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| Back to the basics: Layout and text | |
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| A Canvas for your imagination | |
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| Arranging content of a Canvas | |
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| The Canvas: packing a punch | |
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| The StackPanel: Stack 'em deep | |
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| The power Grid | |
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| Arranging Grid content | |
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| Sizing it up | |
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| Working with the Grid programmatically | |
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| Customizing cell boundaries | |
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| Displaying text | |
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| Font properties | |
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| Flow control | |
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| Text properties | |
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| Spacing | |
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| The UIElement and FrameworkElement | |
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| Properties | |
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| Methods | |
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| Summary | |
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| Handling user interaction | |
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| Understanding device support | |
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| Capturing the keyboard | |
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| Trapping the mouse | |
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| Delivering text controls | |
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| Handling basic text | |
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| Collecting sensitive data | |
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| Button controls | |
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| The Button | |
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| The HyperlinkButton | |
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| The RadioButton | |
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| The CheckBox | |
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| The ItemsControl | |
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| The ListBox | |
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| The ComboBox | |
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| The TabControl | |
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| Date controls | |
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| Calendar | |
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| DatePicker | |
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| Choosing from a numeric range | |
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| Using the ProgressBar | |
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| Implementing a Slider | |
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| Displaying visual prompts | |
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| Popping up a dialog box | |
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| Prompting for a file | |
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| Miscellaneous controls | |
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| Creating a border | |
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| Collecting drawings | |
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| Summary | |
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| Getting down with data binding | |
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| Binding with your data | |
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| Mastering the binding syntax | |
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| Choosing a binding mode | |
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| Understanding your data source | |
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| Binding to a property | |
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| Binding to an object | |
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| Binding to a collection | |
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| Customizing the display | |
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| Converting values during binding | |
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| Creating data templates | |
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| The DataGrid | |
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| Displaying your data | |
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| Editing grid data | |
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| Sorting items | |
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| Language Integrated Query (LINQ) | |
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| Introducing LINQ | |
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| LINQ to Objects | |
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| LINQ to XML | |
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| LINQ-ing it together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Networking and communications | |
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| Trust, security, and browser limitations | |
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| It's all a matter of trust | |
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| Making your application secure | |
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| Limitations of the browser | |
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| Connecting to data sources | |
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| Using SOAP services | |
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| Time for a REST | |
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| Making the data usable | |
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| Reading POX | |
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| Converting JSON | |
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| Reading syndicated feeds | |
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| Using advanced services | |
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| WCF service enhancements | |
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| WCF duplex services | |
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| Connecting to sockets | |
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| Summary | |
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| Managing digital media | |
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| Stunning audio and video | |
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| Getting to the source | |
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| Common properties | |
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| Audio specifics | |
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| Video specifics | |
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| The lifecycle of a media file | |
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| Playlists: for that web-based mixtape | |
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| Understanding client-side playlists | |
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| Using server-side playlists | |
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| Interactive playback | |
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| Controlling the play state | |
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| Timely interaction | |
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| Going full screen | |
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| Using protected content | |
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| Requesting protected content | |
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| Retrieving the PlayReady components | |
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| Unlocking protected content | |
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| Using images in your application | |
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| Basic imaging | |
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| Deep Zoom | |
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| The 7th inning stretch: Dealing with dead space | |
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| I'll have none of this stretching business | |
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| Uniform sizing | |
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| Fill the area | |
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| UniformToFill | |
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| Summary | |
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| Getting a grip on graphics | |
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| Getting in shape | |
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| A Line in the sand | |
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| Rectangle | |
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| The ellipse | |
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| Polyline | |
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| Polygon | |
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| Geometry | |
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| Simple geometries | |
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| Path geometries | |
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| Composite geometries | |
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| Brushes | |
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| SolidColorBrush | |
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| LinearGradientBrush | |
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| RadialGradientBrush | |
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| ImageBrush | |
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| VideoBrush | |
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| Transforms | |
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| RotateTransform | |
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| ScaleTransform | |
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| SkewTransform | |
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| TranslateTransform | |
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| TransformGroup | |
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| Blending it together | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bringing it to life: Animation | |
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| Animation: It's about time | |
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| Mastering the timeline | |
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| What type of property are you animating? | |
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| Where are you starting from and where are you going? | |
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| How long should the animation run? | |
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| Storyboarding | |
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| Understanding the storyboard | |
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| Hitting the target | |
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| Controlling the Storyboard | |
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| Being resourceful | |
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| Key framing | |
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| Interpolation: It's about acceleration | |
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| Timing is everything | |
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| Summary | |
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| Giving it style | |
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| Being resourceful | |
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| Declarative resources | |
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| Accessing loose resources | |
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| Bundling resources | |
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| Giving your elements style | |
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| Defining the look | |
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| Targeting style definitions | |
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| Creating templates | |
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| Building a control template | |
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| Creating reusable templates | |
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| Dealing with visual states | |
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| Understanding the components | |
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| Leveraging the VisualStateManager | |
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| Sharing your effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhancing the experience | |
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| Storing data in isolated storage | |
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| IsolatedStorageFile: The virtual filesystem | |
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| Reading and writing files: The isolated storage way | |
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| Administering the isolated storage | |
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| Using XAML at runtime | |
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| BackgroundWorker | |
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| Doing the work | |
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| Updating the UI | |
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| Retrieving content on demand | |
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| Requesting content | |
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| Managing larger download requests | |
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| Loading the content | |
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| The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) | |
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| Dynamic typing | |
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| Metaprogramming | |
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| Summary | |
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| Share the light: Distribution and deployment | |
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| Creating a user control | |
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| Defining the appearance | |
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| Defining the behavior | |
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| Calling the control | |
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| Architecting navigation in Silverlight | |
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| Setting up the architecture | |
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| Implementing a navigator | |
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| Navigating between pages (a.k.a. UserControls) | |
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| Using a custom splash screen | |
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| Creating the appearance | |
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| Integrating the custom splash screen | |
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| Monitoring the load progress | |
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| Hosting with Silverlight Streaming | |
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| Preparing to stream! | |
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| Pack it up! | |
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| Ship it! | |
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| Use it! | |
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| Summary | |
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| Index | |