Beginning Quick Starts Tutorial Of Silverlight

Beginning QuickStarts

• Getting Starting With Silverlight
  Shows how to create a simple Silverlight application and host it in the browser.
• XAML
  Introduces you to XAML, a declarative language used in Silverlight to create UI (e.g. controls, shapes, text, and other content presented on the screen).
• Control Basics
  Just about every application needs controls (e.g. button, textbox, etc). This QuickStart goes over creating a control and enabling it to "do" something.
• Controls Part 2
  This QuickStart introduces the different types of controls available for Silverlight and how to add content to those controls.
• Text and Rich Text
  Silverlight provides several controls for rendering text, along with a set of properties for formatting the text.
• Layout on the Screen
  Now that you are familiar with the basic UI components of controls and text, it's time to position them where you want in your application.
• Images
  Describes how to integrate images into your applications.
• Graphics
  Silverlight uses scalable vector graphics. This quickstart shows you how to draw shapes.
• Brushes
  You can fill shapes and controls with various colors, gradients, and even video.
• Control Styles
  Styles enable you to customize how controls look and behave across multiple controls. This is analogous to CSS in HTML, only more powerful.
• Video and Audio
  You can integrate media directly into your pages using Silverlight.
• Animations
  Make your application come to life using Silverlight animations!
• Effects
  You can use visual effects like drop shadows, blurs, and mirror effects to enhance the look and design of your application.
• Silverlight Install and Upgrade Experience
  Describes how to create an experience that entices users to install or upgrade Silverlight in order to run your application.
• Accessibility
  Accessibility is about making your applications usable by people with limitations that prevent or impede the use of conventional user interfaces (UIs).
• Out-of-Browser Applications
  You can deploy your Silverlight application onto a user's computer to gain greater trust (e.g. gain access to file system) and enable the application to run offline.
• Windows Phone Applications
  You can create a Windows Phone application using Silverlight.

Working with Data QuickStarts

• Getting Data Into Silverlight
  An overview of sources of data for Silverlight applications and a guide to the other QuickStarts related to working with data in Silverlight.
• Data Binding to Controls
  Describes how to data bind to a control and customize the display.
• Isolated Storage
  Use Isolated Storage to store limited amount of data on the client (e.g. user's computer or phone). In terms of HTML, this is somewhat analogous to cookies.
• Web Services
  Provides an introduction to using Web services in Silverlight.
• LINQ TO XML
  Describes hows how to use LINQ to filter, group, sort, transform, and project an RSS feed.
• WCF RIA Services
  WCF RIA Services simplifies the development of n-tier solutions for Silverlight applications.
• REST Services
  Describes how to call and work with REST services.
• Consuming OData Feeds
  Silverlight includes a WCF Data Services client library that enables you to access data from any service that exposes an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed.

More QuickStarts

• Control Templates
  Describes how to create a ControlTemplate to customize the appearance of a CheckBox control.
• Webcams
  In Silverlight, you can access the video and audio feeds from media devices such as webcams and TV tuners.
• Silverlight 3-D Effects
  Describes how to appy 3-D effects (perspective transforms) to your Silverlight content.
• Deep Zoom
  Deep Zoom allows you to zoom in on high-resolution images and pan around.
• HTML Bridge
  Describes how to access the HTML DOM from managed code, and to call managed code from JavaScript.
• Syndication Feeds
  Describes how to create a Silverlight client that can access and display a syndication service.