In this course, you will learn about Microsoft Silverlight, the new cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in that helps you deliver rich interactive Web applications.

Course includes 10+ hours of total training time...

• 8 modules of training
• Over 8 hours of media run time
• Sample code

• Starvation of the current Web architecture
• Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2
• Silverlight vs. Smart Client vs. AJAX
• What's a Silverlight application?
• The plug-in
• Hosting Silverlight in Web pages
• Visual Studio 2008 ad hoc tools

• XAML and code-behind
• Auto-generated properties
• Dynamically generated XAML
• XAP packages
• Manifests and assembly parts
• Downloading XAML content on the fly
• Loading process

• Silverlight and the browser
• Accessing the page DOM from Silverlight
• HtmlPage and browser information
• Accessing XAML elements from JavaScript
• Silverlight handlers for HTML elements
• Invoking Silverlight code from HTML
• Scriptable and creatable objects

• WPF and Silverlight
• Layout capabilities
• WPF controls
• Styles and templates
• Silverlight Controls
• Resources
• Data binding

• Introducing LINQ
• Using LINQ on collections
• Threading
• BackgroundWorker
• Timers

• Purposes of isolated storage
• Reading and writing files and folders
• OpenFileDialog
• Managing the quota
• Occasionally connected applications

• A quick look at the XML cursor model
• Creating XML files
• Reading XML files
• LINQ-to-XML
• Application settings

• Making simple Web calls
• Posting data
• Synchronous calls (deadlocks if you use monitors)
• Cross-domain proxy
• Sockets to push data to the client

• Invoking WCF services
• Async calls
• Security of the application services

• Beyond CAS
• Attribute-based security
• Transparent code and SafeCritical code
• Security through inheritance

• Reusing the XAML and code-behind
• Separation of concerns (SoC)
• Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM)