50145: Silverlight 2.0 for Developers (3 Days)
About this Course
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop Microsoft Silverlight 2 applications through a variety of available development tools and techniques. It also introduces the concept of separation between data and user interface (UI), the usage of XAML to create rich UI and the integration of Silverlight applications with existing web projects.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for both novice and experienced .NET programmers who have a minimum of six months development experience and basic Windows navigation skills.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Create a simple Silverlight 2 application based on the Visual Studio Silverlight application template.
- Use existing user controls to create a user interface and customize their templates and styles to provide an optimal user experience.
- Create Silverlight custom controls.
- Use data binding mechanisms to populate controls with a data.
- Consume existing WCF/Web services from Silverlight applications.
- Communicate with the Silverlight hosting environment (HTML DOM).
- Use isolated offline storage in Silverlight applications.
- Localize Silverlight applications.
- Use DeepZoom in Silverlight applications.
Course Outline
Module 1: Silverlight Development Basics
This module explains how to start developing Silverlight applications, which tools are needed, the purpose and motivation of XAML, which user controls are available out of the box and how to use them.
Lessons
- Silverlight XAML
- XAML editing tools
- Silverlight application architecture
- “Hello World!” with Silverlight
- Available user controls
- Handling and publishing events
- Transformations
- Animations
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Create a new Silverlight application from the Visual Studio Silverlight project template.
- Understand the motivation for XAML and tools for working with it.
- Integrate existing user controls in Silverlight projects.
- Publish and consume events in Silverlight applications.
- Use transformations and animations in Silverlight applications.
Module 2: Advanced Silverlight Development
This module explains how to access XAML objects from managed code, create new XAML objects dynamically, develop user controls and custom controls, create control templates and styles, use data binding and customize user control states with the VisualStateManager.
Lessons
- Creating XAML objects from managed code
- Managing XAML objects from managed code
- Silverlight user controls
- Custom controls
- Control templates and styles
- Data binding
- VisualStateManager
Lab : Hands On #1
- Layouts
- Code-behind data binding
- Data templates
- Consuming WCF services
Lab : Hands On #2
- User Controls
- XAML data binding
- IValueConverter
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Access, create and manage XAML objects from managed code.
- Create user controls.
- Create and apply styles and templates.
- Consume WCF services.
- Bind data to Silverlight controls from code and from XAML.
- Customize the behavior of user controls with VisualStateManager.
- Handle events in Silverlight applications.
Module 3: Miscellaneous Topics
This module explains how a Silverlight application can access network resources, how to access HTML DOM objects from Silverlight applications and expose Silverlight functionality to the hosting HTML page, how to access isolated storage files, how to localize Silverlight applications, how to use DeepZoom in Silverlight applications, and how to create interactive media applications.
Lessons
- Silverlight networking
- Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight managed code
- Accessing Silverlight managed code from HTML DOM
- Creating an application splash screen
- Using isolated storage
- Localizing Silverlight applications
- Silverlight application initialization parameters
- Silverlight application deployment
- DeepZoom
- Interactive media applications
Lab : Hands On #3*
- VisualStateManager
- Animations
Lab : Hands On #4
- Self-training lab: Creating a user control with WCF service communication functionality, custom ViewStateManager states and styles and integrating it into the application built in the previous labs.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Consume various network services from Silverlight application.
- Access HTML elements on the Silverlight hosting page.
- Expose managed functionality to the Silverlight hosting page.
- Use isolated offline storage from Silverlight applications.
- Localize Silverlight applications.
- Pass initialization parameters to Silverlight applications.
- Show a custom splash screen while the application is loading.
- Use DeepZoom features to extend Silverlight applications.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Working knowledge of C#, HTML and JavaScript
- Highly recommended: web development knowledge (web development basics will not be covered in this course)