Silverlight 4.0 Hands On Seminar
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Two day Seminars coming throughout Florida. Let us know where you are and we can bring this unique learning opportunity to your area or enterprise.
$599 includes lunch and course VPC on USB Flash Drive. Learn to develop on this technology deploying to both on-premise and Cloud infrastructures.
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Learn Silverlight 4.0 in a two day Hands-On Seminar presented by Joe Homnick and other Microsoft Certified Trainers in Developer Technologies from Homnick Systems. We will supply you with a Virtual PC image and workbook. You can optionally, BYOL (bring your own laptop) to walk along with the instructor and/or take the materials with you for further lab work after the class.
What is a "Hands-On Seminar? This is a seminar format, pioneered by Homnick Systems in 2004, where the Instructor mostly uses demos to teach the attendee concepts originally presented in slide format. The attendee can approach this learning solution as a pure seminar without a laptop and then work on the courseware demos on their own time. Optionally, the attendee can "walk along" with the instructor on their own systems running a supplied VPC image. This "walk along" can be of varied involvement and should still be supplemented with lab work on their own time. Both approaches work very well in learning the concepts and the seminar attendees are usually evenly split on the approach they select.
Optional hands-on laptop system requirements to walk along with the instructor during demos and labs:
A laptop with a minimum of 2 gig of memory, USB 2.0 port and Windows XP, Vista or 7.0 installed.
Who Should Attend: Software Developers and managers who want to learn about developing with Silverlight 4.0.
Course Outline-Silverlight 4.0
What’s new in Silverlight 4.0 Overview
New for the software developer are 60 new customizable forms controls, WCF RIA Services, CLR enabled code the same for both browser and desktop, enhanced databinding support, Managed Extensibility Framework and tooling support in Visual Studio 2010.
Building Business Applications
Silverlight 4.0 has simplified the capability of building Line of Business (LOB) applications with the Silverlight Business Application template. We look at WCF RIA Services, Data binding – DataGrid and DataForm, Rich Text & BiDirectional Text and Navigation features while building a LOB application.
Input validation, Authentication and Customization
We extend the LOB application with RIA Services authentication, along with the DataForm control and add Data Validation. We also show how to use the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) in a Silverlight application.
Webcam, Drag and Drop and Clipboard
In this module we look at how to incorporate Webcam access, Drag and drop from the file system into a Silverlight application and Programmatic clipboard access.
Grouping, ListBox Animations, Word Trimming and Right Click
New declarative grouping support is available to drill down into groupings. Animations allow for “fluid UI” animations. There is new word-based trimming available in the TextBlock. There is also a custom UI for right mouse button clicks.
Printing and Viewbox
Printing in Silverlight revolves around an instance of PrintDocument which raises PrintPage event. The Viewbox element is capable of stretching content to fit the space available.
Out of Browser Features and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
Some features of Silverlight are only available OOB. Offline support and “elevation” where Silverlight stops imposing additional restrictions are examples. MEF is an API for dynamic component composition and is useful for applications built around a model of a simple central shell into which various components are added.