Microsoft Silverlight Training Class for Designers

Microsoft Silverlight Training Class - Topics Covered

Silverlight overview

• Understanding Silverlight capabilities
• Introduction to XAML
• Customizing user interface
• Using controls
• Adding interactivity
• Publishing and XAP file
   

Expression Studio tools overview

• Expression Design, Blend, Media, and Web

Workflow for creating Silverlight content

• Roles of web designers and web developers
• Introduction to XAML

Marking up integration with shapes

• Definition of the drawing API

Creating animations using Blend

• The workspace
• Defining the Silverlight workflow
• Using the layout model (Canvases, StackPanels, Grids)
• Animation using the Blend timeline and storyboard
• Using controls in your animation
• Drawing, painting, and importing assets

Prototyping Silverlight projects

Building assets for Silverlight project

• Importing assets
• Creating objects
• Applying properties
• Transforming

Naming and Arranging Elements

• Grid control and canvas control
• Transforming
• ViewBox control

Creating animation & basic interactivity

• Understanding storyboards
• Creating storyboard resources
• Using behaviors

C# essentials

Working with data

• List & DataGrid controls
• Setting data binding

Adding multimedia

• Encoding video for Silverlight using Expression Media Encoder
• Preparing video
• Encoding basics
• Controlling media elements
• Adding video to projects

Working with the Visual State Manager

• Modifying UI controls
• Modifying states & transitions
• Creating a custom UI Control
• Defining states & transitions in a custom control
• Editing the content presenter

Advanced Coding & Interactivity

• Using classes
• Adding states
• Extending custom controls

Deep Zoom Composer

• Creating a Deep Zoom project
• Adding source files
• Creating a composition
• Publishing a Deep Zoom experience

Final Deployment

• Building your solution
• Adding Silverlight applications to web pages