Silverlight 4 Beta Hands On Labs

Employee Manager

In this lab we'll learn how to build a data-entry application which uses DataGrids and data forms with the help of Bindings and Validations.

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Image Browser

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This lab will demonstrate how to create a style-able and template-able Silverlight custom control. The lab application will provide an interface to display, add, remove and manipulate images and will enhance an existing “Silverlight Surface” demo application.

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Magic Mirror

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Silverlight 3 has improved on its hardware acceleration capabilities. Pixel shader effects, perspective transforms and VisualBrush backgrounds are now all hardware GPU accelerated.

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Out of Browser

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In this Lab we will learn how to build out-of-browser applications, how to elevate their permissions, and how to manipulate COM objects through these applications.

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PictureBrowser

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In this lab we'll learn how to use these events and mechanisms to build an application that supports rich mouse functionality. In addition, we'll learn about new controls in the Silverlight 4 SDK, such as the Viewbox control which allows its content to be stretched, whether it contains an image, a text box or any other control.

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RichTextEditor

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In this Lab we will learn how to build a text editor that supports rich text, clipboard copy & paste and printing. We'll also learn how we can use the new BiDi support and the culture based Resources in Silverlight 4 to customize the application's UI according to the client's culture.

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Silverlight 3 Hands On Labs

Binding Data in Margie's Travel

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In this lab you will be updating the main page of the Margie’s Travel so that all controls are driven by real data. Additional all of the controls on the page are kept in synch to ensure that they are all showing the correct and in some cases selected data. We’ll be exploring the functionality of Databinding, DataContext, DataTemplates and Converters. It’s all about the data in this one.

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Browser Integration in Margie's Travel

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In this lab you will learn how to call managed code from JavaScript and how to call JavaScript from managed code, as well as get a chance to play with the Virtual Earth API.

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Build Your First Hello World Application

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In this lab we walk through the steps of creating your first Silverlight application. It is a simple 'Hello World' application but walks you through the steps of creating the application in Visual Studio 2008 and how the .NET code would communicate and manipulate the XAML in the Silverlight application.

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Building the UI for Margie's Travel

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In this lab you will build the main page of the Margie’s travel demo application, using different layout controls including Grid, StackPanel, TabControl and ItemsControl. Each container control has its own strength and learning what they are and how to use them will increase your productivity and happiness.

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Partitioning Your Silverlight Application for Deployment

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In this lab we demonstrate a technique within Silverlight to enable you to partition your application into different deployment packages. This will enable your application to only use what it needs, when it needs it and provide an experience to the user and improve overall download times for your application. This lab walks through a simple example of separating details view information from the main portion of the Silverlight application.

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Styling Margie's Travel

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In this lab you will be updating the appearance of the Margie’s Travel application by using Styles, Templates and the Visual State Manager. We’ll walk through exposing and editing the default template in Blend and from there integrating it into our application as a Resource in Visual Studio.

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Using Layout And Data

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In this lab we get more advanced and create an application that retrieves data from a data source. We first walk through various layout aspects in Silverlight, creating a user interface for our application. The lab then has additional exercises on how Silverlight communicates with a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) web service to retrieve data, and how to query that data using LINQ to XML.

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