Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET developers / Jonathan Swift ... [et al.].

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part I: Silverlight Fundamentals for ASP.NET Developers -- Chapter 1: Silverlight in a Nutshell, Uphill Struggle, Rich Client or Web Reach?, Silverlight Steps In, The Impact of Silverlight on Your Existing ASP.NET Real Estate, What You Should Still Do in ASP.NET, The Development Environment Overview, Summary -- Chapter 2: Silverlight Architecture, Client/Server Architecture Overview, Platforms, Architecture, ASP.NET Integration, Application Life Cycle, Summary -- Chapter 3: XAML Condensed, Why All ASP.NET Developers Should Know the Basics, XAML Syntax and Terminology, Piecing It All Together, Summary -- Chapter 4: Programming Silverlight, How a Silverlight Application Is Composed, JavaScript — How Much You Need to Know, JavaScript — The Basics, The Silverlight Object Model, Events, Threading, and Browser Interaction -- Part II: Developing ASP.NET Applications with Silverlight -- Chapter 5: Creating the User Interface, Expression Suite — A Whirlwind Tour, ASP.NET versus Silverlight Layout, Summary --

Chapter 6: Silverlight Controls, Introduction to Silverlight Controls, Media Controls, Silverlight Toolkit Controls, Summary -- Chapter 7: Styles and Templates, Styles, Templating, Integrating with ASP.NET, ImplicitStyleManager, Summary -- Chapter 8: User Interaction, The Silverlight Interaction Context, Navigation, Summary -- Chapter 9: Communicating with the ServerSilverlight Networking and Communication Features, Cross-Domain Support, Creating Services for Silverlight, Calling Services with Silverlight, Calling REST APIsSummary -- Chapter 10: Working with Data, Data Framework, Data-Binding Essentials, Retrieving and Storing Data, Data Controls, Manipulating Data, LINQ, LINQ to XML, Validation, Summary -- Chapter 11: Creating Custom Controls, User Controls, Customizing Current Controls, Custom Controls, Summary -- Chapter 12: Securing Your Silverlight Application, You’re under Attack!, The Security Model, Working in a Sandbox, Cross-Domain Security, Integrating with ASP.NET Security, Obfuscation, Cryptography, Summary -- Chapter 13: Audio and Video, First Steps, Finer Control, Summary -- Chapter 14: Graphics and Animation, Breathing Life into ASP.NET, Graphics in Silverlight, Image Handling, Animating Your User Interface, Summary -- Chapter 15: Troubleshooting, Is There a Problem?, Common Types of Problems, Your Toolkit, Reducing the Likelihood of Problems, Summary -- Chapter 16: Performance, Performance Bottlenecks, Instrumentation, Improving Performance, Summary -- Index.

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style! As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you’re able to debug, troubleshoot, and performance-tune your Silverlight applications, as well as seamlessly hook into your existing ASP.NET architecture and code base.This book is aimed at .NET developers and architects who want to quickly get up to speed with all that Silverlight 2 has to offer. As well as covering the breadth of features that Silverlight 2 provides, this book makes a point of demonstrating where necessary how the particular feature can be integrated tightly with the ASP.NET host application. An example is in Chapter 7, where the ASP.NET Profile service is utilized directly from within Silverlight to obtain user-specific data. It’s fair to say that although this book is aimed at ASP.NET developers, it covers all of the salient features of Silverlight 2 to the degree that it’s a useful programming resource for developers not using ASP.NET also.

If you’re fresh to .NET development, however, you might want to check out a beginning .NET book first, to help you overcome the syntax and set-up queries when learning a new language. Otherwise, take a deep breath and dive in! This book covers the full feature set of Silverlight 2, diving into each of the subject areas to give depth and breadth coverage. As well as teaching you about the component parts of the Silverlight API, the book also covers debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning your Silverlight applications, arming you with all the skills and knowledge you’ll need to create advanced Silverlight-based applications in record time. Importantly, this book covers the integration points between ASP.NET and Silverlight, taking you through the different techniques you can use to seamlessly augment your existing or new ASP.NET web sites with the power of Silverlight.

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