Silverlight 3 Tutorial – (Four Hours of Free Videos by Microsoft Experts)

asp.net videos — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:26:23 +0000

Interested in Silverlight 3 Tutorial? Here you will find four hours of free Silverlight 3 video tutorials by Microsoft experts. Jesse Liberty and his cohorts describe the new features available in Silverlight 3.

Background: – Silverlight 3 was released on July 9, 2009.

Silverlight 3 includes an increased number of controls:

DataGrid
TreeView
various layout panels
DataForm for forms-driven applications
DataPager for viewing paginated data

Silverlight 3 includes a navigation framework that allows Silverlight applications to use the hyperlinked navigation model as well as enabling deep-linking (linking directly to specific pages) within Silverlight applications

Silverlight 3 supports:

audio decoding
hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding
1080p smooth streaming
perspective 3D which enables 3D transformations of 2D elements
A Bitmap API
GPU to accelerate the composition of Visual Trees
Visual trees can now be cached
ClearType text rendering
element-to-element binding
Out-of-Browser experiences

Installed Silverlight 3 applications automatically check for updates asynchronously on every launch and updates are automatically installed. Running instances of the applications are informed when updates are available.

Be sure to check out the other series that Jesse Liberty has done on Silverlight. You can find them in the Silverlight 2 video series in the Advanced Series category at Progress Monitor.

photo credit: Yoshi5000

Silverlight 3

Num	Series	Title	Date	Presenter	Min
83	Silverlight 3 Beta	DOMAIN UPDOWN CONTROL	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	30
84	Silverlight 3 Beta	TIME INPUT CONTROL	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	25
85	Silverlight 3 Beta	SAVEFILEDIALOG API	3/18/2009	Laurence Moroney	8
86	Silverlight 3 Beta	USING 3D TRANSFORMS, PART 1	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	16
87	Silverlight 3 Beta	USING 3D TRANSFORMS, PART 2	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	16
88	Silverlight 3 Beta	ELEMENT TO ELEMENT BINDING	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	6
89	Silverlight 3 Beta	PIXEL EFFECTS	3/18/2009	Mike Taulty	24
90	Silverlight 3 Beta	ANIMATION EASING LIBRARIES	3/18/2009	Laurence Moroney	7
91	Silverlight 3 Beta	DATAFORM CONTROL	3/18/2009	Mike Taulty	26
92	Silverlight 3 Beta	LOCALCONNECTION API	3/18/2009	Tim Heuer	12
93	Silverlight 3 Beta	OUT-OF-BROWSER EXPERIENCES	3/18/2009	Tim Heuer	24
94	Silverlight 3 Beta	NAVIGATION FRAMEWORK	3/18/2009	Tim Heuer	26
95	Silverlight 3 Beta	SILVERLIGHT TOOLKIT: ACCORDION CONTROL	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	20
96	Silverlight 3 Beta	SILVERLIGHT TOOLKIT: ANIMATEDTRANSITION CONTROL	3/18/2009	Jesse Liberty	18
				Total	258

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asp.net videos — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:13:04 +0000

This free six-hour video tutorial series is entitled – "Look What you can do with Silverlight 2." Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET Framework-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Microsoft also has a great How Do I Video Series on Silverlight that can be viewed at silverlight.net/learn

These series cover the following topics: Silverlight 2 download, silverlight xml, ms expression, expression web designer.

Be sure to also check out the 4 hours of free video tutorials on Silverlight 3 and ms expression.

Presenter: Lindsay Rutter, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
photo credit: scorbette37

Silverlight 2

1. Overview of Silverlight 2 and the WPF UI Framework

Key Concepts:A.Overview of Silverlight 2
B. Silverligt 2 architecture
C. the new features specific to Silverlight 2
D. Silverlight tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend
E. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) UI framework for Silverlight, which is a subset of the WPF UI framework for the desktop and Windows Presentation Foundation
F. Silverlight controls
G. How to render content correctly when you resize the page
H. Silverlight controls: including Button, Calendar, ListBox, Image, Grid, Slider, and TextBox.

June 16, 2008 60 minutes

2. WPF UI Framework Continued

Key Concepts:A. Microsoft Silverlight 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) UI framework
B. Data-binding support
C. Customizing the appearance of your controls with the templating and skinning model in Silverlight 2.
D. Bind UI elements to business objects for rich data scenarios with model, view, and container separation.
E. Control templating allows you to change color and style and the whole visual tree of your control and even add custom animations without writing code.

June 18, 2008 60 minutes

3. Introducing Deep Zoom

Key Concepts:A. Deep Zoom allows users to easily and cleanly navigate through very large images and only download the portions of the images needed.
B. The considerations that you must make when working with large images
C. How Silverlight 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and Microsoft Expression Blend enable you to implement Deep Zoom in applications easily.

June 20, 2008 60 minutes

4. Web Services Support

Key Concepts:A. Microsoft Silverlight 2 has a robust networking stack, and it supports Representational State Transfer (REST), SOAP, WS*, HTTP endpoints, and even cross-domain networking
B. Implementing calls to Web services from your Silverlight 2 Microsoft .NET-connected applications using a variety of methods, including standard ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services, and REST.

June 23, 2008 60 minutes

5. Testing Framework

Key Concepts:A. New testing framework enables you to write unit tests for UI and non-UI functionality in Silverlight 2, and it includes more than 2,000 unit tests covering all of the released Silverlight 2 controls.
B. Built-in unit tests and how to build your own unit tests or extend the included unit tests
C. The support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for debugging your Silverlight 2 applications.

June 25, 2008 60 minutes

6. Adaptive Streaming

Key Concepts:A. Adaptive streaming is an addition to the rich media capabilities of Silverlight 2.
B. Adaptive streaming enables Silverlight 2 applications to examine the capabilities of the client computer, like CPU and bandwidth, and adjusts the bit-rate encoding of streaming video to handle network congestion and CPU usage automatically.
C. Other cool features of Silverlight 2
D. Silverlight Mobile.

July 25, 2007 9? minutes