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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

By : Johnny Tordgeman
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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

4.8 (5)
By: Johnny Tordgeman

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Silverlight is also a great (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. Silverlight is based on familiar .NET languages such as C# which enables existing .NET developers to get started developing rich internet applications almost immediately. "MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide" will show you how to prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam.Packed with practical examples and Q&As, MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide starts by showing you how to lay out a user interface, enhance the user interface, implement application logic, work with data and interact with a host platform amongst others.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 2. Laying out Our User Interface

We will continue our journey to become a Silverlight guru by covering the different aspects of laying out a user interface in Silverlight. In this chapter we will get some hands-on experience of laying out, displaying, and creating different controls. We have a lot to cover, so let's get going and write some code!

In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

  • Arranging content with panels

  • Using core and content controls

  • Creating user controls

  • The navigation framework

  • Displaying a collection of items

  • Playing media files

  • Test your knowledge

Arranging content with panels

Imagine the following scenario:

You are responsible for building your company's new BI dashboard. You get the requirements from your superior, and you notice one of the requirements is that your application must support all of the different screen resolutions in the office. This is exactly the point of knowing the different panels that Silverlight offers and how they come into play. Silverlight...

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