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