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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
MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Overview of Silverlight
Overview of Silverlight
What is Microsoft Silverlight
Introducing XAML
The Silverlight application model
Integrating Silverlight with HTML
In and out-of-browser support
Summary
2
Laying out Our User Interface
Laying out Our User Interface
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
Summary
3
Enhancing the User Interface
Enhancing the User Interface
Creating or modifying the control styles
Creating control templates
Creating or modifying data templates
Manipulating visuals
Animating visuals
Implementing behaviors
Managing the visual state
Test your knowledge
Summary
4
Implementing Application Logic
Implementing Application Logic
Handling events
Consuming services asynchronously
Working with background threads
Working with dependency properties
Interacting with attached properties
Implementing ICommand
Test your knowledge
Summary
5
Working with Data
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Working with Data
Implementing data binding
Formatting data
Creating and consuming value converters
Implementing data validation
Test your knowledge
Summary
6
Interacting with the Host Platform
Interacting with the Host Platform
Implementing the printing API
Creating out-of-browser applications
Accessing the isolated storage
Interacting with the DOM
Accessing the clipboard
Reading from and writing to the host filesystem
Handling alternative input methods
Test your knowledge
Summary
7
Structuring Applications
Structuring Applications
Creating and consuming resource dictionaries
Implementing localization and globalization
Handling application-level events
Test your knowledge
Summary
8
Deploying Applications
Deploying Applications
Configuring the Silverlight plugin
Dynamically loading application resources
Creating a client access policy
Test your knowledge
Summary
Test Your Knowledge — Answers
Test Your Knowledge — Answers
Chapter 2: Laying out Our User Interface
Chapter 3: Enhancing the User Interface
Chapter 4: Implementing Application Logic
Chapter 5: Working with Data
Chapter 6: Interacting with the Host Platform
Chapter 7: Structuring Applications
Chapter 8: Deploying Applications

Formatting data

New to Silverlight 4 is the ability to format bound data using the StringFormat property that we all know and love from .NET. Using the StringFormat property when doing data binding is perfect for when you wish to format the value that returns from the bind in a specific way, such as currency or any numerical format. Using StringFormat is pretty straightforward; just add the StringFormat property after the binding declaration, just like you did with the mode earlier: 

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Price, StringFormat=c}"/>

The preceding line of code will format the Price property to a currency, which on my machine translates to 5.00$. But why did it choose the dollar symbol and not any other currency symbol? The reason for that is that formatting picks up on the default culture of the system. As my default culture is en-US, I get the dollar symbol. If I had my culture set as he-IL, I would have got the New Israeli Shekel (NIS) symbol.

Currency is just one example of use...

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