Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight (eBook)

Victor Gaudioso (Autor)

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2011 | 1st ed.
440 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-2974-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft's technology. You'll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 4 integrated development environment (IDE), and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time. At the end, you'll put everything you have learned together to create a sample Silverlight 4 website.

Whether you're an experienced .NET or web developer, or you're just starting out, this book will provide you with all you need to create RIAs with Expression Blend 4.

• Develop stunning RIAs in a short time using Blend 4 and Silverlight 4.
• Learn basic object-oriented programming principles.
• Get familiar with the Blend 4 development environment.

Victor Gaudioso 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 ActionScript.org, where he is also a moderator.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 6
About the Author 13
About the Cover Image Designer 14
Acknowledgments 15
Introduction 16
Who this Book Is For 16
What this Book Will Teach You 16
What Are Silverlight/Blend 4, C#, and XAML? 17
Using Visual Studio and Blend 17
What Silverlight Is and How It Differs from WPF 18
Online Resources 18
Layout conventions 18
Chapter 1: Setting Up the Silverlight Development Environment 19
Installing Silverlight 19
Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 19
Installing the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 20
Installing Expression Blend 4 20
Creating Your Very First Silverlight Application 20
Giving Your First Silverlight 4 Application Some Functionality 24
Summary 26
Chapter 2: The Blend Integrated Development Environment 27
New Features in Blend 4 27
The Blend 4 Toolbar 28
The Selection Tool 30
The Direct Selection Tool 30
The Pen/Pencil Tools 31
The Pan Tool 33
The Zoom Tool 33
The Eyedropper Tool 33
The Paint Bucket Tool 34
The Brush Transform and Gradient Tools 34
The Gradient Tool 34
The Brush Transform Tool 37
The Shape Tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, and Line 37
Layout Controls 38
Text Controls and Text Input Controls 39
Input Controls 39
The Asset Library Last Used tool 40
The Asset Library 40
The Objects and Timeline Panel 41
The Project Panel 42
The Properties Panel 43
The Brushes bucket 44
Creating the Color Resource 46
Using the New BlackToWhite Color Resource 48
Using OpacityMasks to Create a Reflection Effect 50
The Appearance Bucket 53
The Layout Bucket 54
The Common Properties Bucket 55
The Text Bucket 56
The Transform Bucket 56
The Miscellaneous Bucket 57
Search 58
The Resources Panel 58
Blend Development Views and Workspaces 59
Design View 59
XAML View 60
Split View 60
Workspaces 61
The Design Workspace 61
The Animation Workspace 61
Summary 67
Chapter 3: C#, XAML, and Object-Oriented Programming 68
C# and the .NET Framework 68
The .NET CLR 69
Why C#? 69
Encapsulation 69
Classes 70
Inheritance 71
Modularity 71
Maintainability 72
Automatic Garbage Collection 72
Language Integrated Query 72
XML documentation 72
XAML 73
A Simple OOP Project 75
Summary 87
Chapter 4: Layout Controls: Including the New Silverlight 4 Controls: Viewbox, RichTextBox, FlowDirection Property, and Improved Data Binding 88
The Grid 88
The Canvas 93
The StackPanel 95
The Border 97
Item Controls 98
Input Controls 102
New Silverlight 4 Controls 103
The Viewbox 103
The RichTextBox Control 105
Flow Direction 107
Improved Data Binding 110
DependencyObject Binding 110
Data Validation and Data Binding 110
String Format, TargetNullValue, and FallbackValue 110
Summary 111
Chapter 5: Timed Storyboards: Creating a Newton Cradle Application 112
What Are Storyboards? 113
Creating a Simple Storyboard 113
Storyboard Animation Types 118
Color 118
Point 118
Double 118
Creating the Newton’s Cradle Application 120
Behaviors 135
Implementing the ControlStoryboardAction Behavior 135
Summary 138
Chapter 6: Using VSM and Blend 4’s State Panel to Create a Silverlight Media Player 140
The Visual State Manager (VSM) 141
Using Blend 4’s States Panel 142
A Simple Silverlight Project 143
Creating a Media Player Using VSM 149
Creating the Silverlight Project in Blend 4 150
Designing the Navigation Orb 151
Creating the Backplate for the MediaElement 160
Adding the MediaElement 167
Positioning the Navigation Buttons and the Backplate 173
Adding a Reflection 173
Adding the States 175
Using Behaviors to Trigger the MouseEnter and MouseLeave States 178
Adding Easing Functions to Animations to Make Them More Realistic and Fun 181
Adding Behaviors to Add the Play, Pause, and Stop Functionality 182
Summary 184
Chapter 7: Behaviors in Silverlight 186
What Are Behaviors? 186
Using Behaviors 187
Creating Your Own Simple Behavior 196
Summary 205
Chapter 8: The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors 206
Choosing Between Silverlight and Flash for Video 207
Choosing Silverlight 207
Choosing Flash 208
Creating the Silverlight Video Player Application 209
Summary 237
Chapter 9: Events and EventHandlers 238
Creating the EventsAndEventHandlers project 238
Click 240
Mouse Events 241
MouseEnter and MouseLeave 243
MouseEnter 243
MouseLeave 245
MouseLeftButtonDown 246
MouseLeftButtonUp 248
New Events in Silverlight 4 249
Right-Click 249
MouseWheel 252
Drop Target Events 253
Summary 259
Chapter 10: Classes and Interfaces 260
Static Classes vs. Concrete Classes 260
Abstract Classes 261
Sealed Classes 261
Partial Classes 262
Singleton Classes 262
Private vs. Public Access Modifiers (Public and Private Classes) 262
Internal Classes 263
Protected Classes 263
Interfaces 263
Summary 273
Chapter 11: Styles, Control Templates, and Custom UserControls 274
Understanding the ControlTemplate 275
Creating a Button ControlTemplate with a Style 275
Creating ResourceDictionaries 279
Overriding Default Styles for Controls 281
Adding Your Button Style to Your Resource Dictionary 285
Creating Custom UserControls 285
Demystifying the DependencyProperty 292
Summary 298
Chapter 12: Writing a Custom Content Panel 299
Creating the Project 300
Summary 317
Chapter 13: Writing a Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser Application with Elevated Trust and the New Silverlight 4 COM API 318
Creating an Out-Of-Browser Silverlight 4 Application 319
Summary 333
Chapter 14: Creating a Photobooth Applicationwith the Silverlight 4 Webcam API 334
Creating the Application 335
Setting Up the Visuals in Expression Blend 336
Using the MouseDragElementBehavior to make items draggable 341
Adding the Buttons 342
Starting and Displaying the Webcam 344
Taking the Snapshot 347
Saving the Image 349
Adding the Draggable Items to the Saved Image 351
Summary 355
Chapter 15: MVVM: Model-View-ViewModel 356
Overview 356
History of MVVM 357
Data Binding, DataTemplates, and Commanding 357
Model 358
View 358
ViewModel 358
MVVM Features in Silverlight 4 359
Creating Your First MVVM Application in Blend 4 359
Overview of the MVVM Template Project 361
Creating Supporting Objects 362
Setting Up the ViewModel 365
Setting Up the Sample Data Source 367
Setting Up the View 371
MVVM Toolkits and Frameworks for Silverlight 381
Summary 382
Chapter 16: SketchFlow Prototyping 383
Create the Project 383
Setting Up the SketchFlow Structure 385
Adding the Visuals 387
Creating a Navigation Component Screen 389
Connecting to the Nav Component Screen 392
Adding Some Interaction to the Pages 393
Adding the Visual State Group 395
Hooking the Visual States Up 396
The SketchFlow Player and Feedback 398
Word Documentation 403
Summary 405
Chapter 17: New Features of Silverlight 4 406
Right-click and Mouse Wheel Support 407
The Printing API 407
ICommand Support 410
Addition of the RichTextArea Control 411
Clipboard API 411
Network Authentication 411
Improved Data Binding 412
Addition of ViewBox 413
Keyboard Access in Full-screen Mode 413
Google Chrome Support 413
Right-to-Left Support 413
Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) 415
Offline Digital Rights Management (DRM) 415
Fluid UI Support in Items Controls 415
Cross-Domain Networking Made Easier 415
TextTrimming 415
Summary 416
Index 417

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 440 p.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability
• Schlagworte: Control • Flash • Internet • Layout • programming • Technology • Templates • Time • Video • XML
• ISBN-10: 1-4302-2974-8 / 1430229748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-2974-2 / 9781430229742