The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes hands-on-labs, a video and a whitepaper designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 focusing on three major areas: Enabling Business Application Development, Empowering Richer Experiences and Moving Beyond the Browser. Some of the new highly anticipated features include Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text, HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.
This is a four-part hands-on lab that walks through the creation of a rich text editor application. First you will familiarize yourself with the project and then begin working with the new RichTextArea control. Then you will learn how to access the clipboard programmatically and print. As a final step you will explore bi-directional text support and Right-to-Left aligned text.
browser application. First, you will implement drop target functionality to load images and create a context menu. Then you will handle multi-touch events allowing you to arrange and rotate the images.
This is a two-part hands-on lab that walks through the creation of a picture browser application. First, you will asynchronously load images from a web server into the new ViewBox control. Then you will implement a new look and feel with implicit styles. As a final step you will implement the new mousewheel functionality to resize the images.
This is a two-part hands-on lab that walks through many features including data validation, IDataErrorInfo and more. First you will explore the new functionality in the DataGrid including Grouping support. Then you will explore Binding to Dependency Properties, Fallback Values and String formatting.
This is a two-part hands-on lab that walks the creation of an application that takes advantage of device integration. First you will explore hardware accelerated pixel shader effects, and then you will learn how to access a WebCam. As a final step, you will capture and print a snapshot form the WebCam.