ebook: Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight

Publication: 2009, English

ISBN: 9781430219507

Pages: 368

The only real tool for developing cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for that last 11 years has been Flash; until now! Silverlight 3 allows you to develop cross-platform Rich Internet Applications in a fraction of the time because of the extensive and very powerful .NET 3.5 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 3 Integrated Development Environment, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.

Develop stunning RIAs in a short time.
Learn some basic Object Oriented Programming Principles.
Get familiar with the Blend 3 development environment.

What you'll learn

Learn the Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2008 Integrated Development Environments (IDE).
Learn how to create stunning animations using Silverlight 3 Storyboards.
Learn how to incorporate video and sound into your RIAs with the Silverlight MediaElement.
Learn about and how to develop quickly using Silverlight 3's reusable resources such as UserControls, ControlTemplates and DataTemplates.
Learn about the new Visual State Manager and the State panel in Blend 3 to quickly and easily add MouseEnter and MouseLeave states to your UserControls.
Put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 3 website.

Who is this book for?

Web designers and developers wanting to learn Expression Blend 3 from the ground up. Those who have a background in the development of RIAs and want to learn this new technology.

About the Author

Victor is a senior application engineer at IdentityMine, a top-tier software company specializing in designing and developing cutting edge software applications, creating customized WPF/Blend and Silverlight training programs and creating tools for designers and developers. Victor has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Harrah\'s, Mattel, NBC/Universal, Disney, Best Buy, GameStop, Vivendi Universal Games, and New Line Cinema among others. Victor, a former Flash/ActionScript engineer still stays active in the Flash community by writing articles and tutorials on www.actionscript.org where he is also a moderator.