Advanced Microsoft Silverlight Training (2 days)

Advanced Silverlight Training Overview

This advanced Silverlight training course focuses on more advanced Silverlight-specific topics. While this course targets Silverlight developers, designers looking to utilize Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Suite will also benefit from the knowledge gained.

Advanced Silverlight Training Course Goals

• Learn to create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight applications through database interaction
• Learn to analyze security threats and solutions to be considered when developing Silverlight applications
• Consider complexities involved in developing Silverlight applications in a team environment
• Learn to streamline Silverlight applications through the use of background processes

Advanced Silverlight Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Experience with Silverlight as learned in Webucator's Introduction to Silverlight training course.

Advanced Silverlight Training Course Outline

1. Securing Silverlight Applications
   1. SOA Security
   2. Silverlight Security
   3. Networking Security
   4. Cryptography
2. Deploying Silverlight Applications
   1. Deploying to the Silverlight Streaming Service
   2. Deploying to a Web Server
3. Improving Silverlight Application Performance
   1. Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Processing
   2. Background Worker Process
   3. Threading
   4. Asynchronously Calling a Service
   5. HTTP Downloader
4. Silverlight Team Development
   1. Source Control
   2. Configuring Visual Studio Team System for Source Control
   3. Configuring Expression Blend for Source Control
   4. Discuss How Working In a Team Environment Affects the Overall Process

Advanced Silverlight Training Course Materials

In addition to a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples, each student will also receive a one-year subscription to Webucator's online reference library, which contains hundreds of the most current electronic technology books - a $149.95 per student value.

Advanced Silverlight Training Technical Requirements

1. Windows Vista
2. Visual Studio 2008
   • Download
3. Visual Source Safe 2005
4. Microsoft Silverlight 2.0
5. Microsoft Expression Blend 2
   • Be sure to get the March 2008 Preview and that it is version 2 as version 1 does not support Silverlight.
6. Microsoft Expression Encoder
   • Download
7. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with SP2
   • Download - Full installation (including all services) required of developer or enterprise edition.
8. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit
   • Download
9. Microsoft SQL Server Sample Databases
   • Download - Once the sample database scripts have been extracted, double-click each of the two .sql files to open it in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express and execute it using the toolbar button. This will install the sample database.

Class Files for Advanced Silverlight Training

1. Download the class files.
2. After downloading the files, click here for further instructions.