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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 |
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