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How about taking a class directly from your home or office with a live instructor?
When you register for one of our instructor-led online Silverlight classes, we send you a computer headset, the courseware for class, and some other goodies. At the time of class, you simply put your headset on and log in to our web conferencing software. You can hear everything the instructor says, see the complete presentation, and ask questions at any time. Classes are small, generally 2-6 students, full of hands-on exercises, and are never cancelled due to low enrollment.

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Comprehensive Silverlight Training (5 days)

Classes for individuals are delivered via the Web by a Webucator instructor over a live web conference. For more information on how these classes are delivered click here or call us toll free at 877-932-8228.

Click here for our private onsite Silverlight classes

Start Date Price Register
June 2, 2008
(Start time: 10:00 AM ET)		 $2,095.00
You may also register by calling 1-877-932-8228.

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Overview

In this Silverlight training course students will build an application through a series of hands-on labs. The first 3 days of the course focus on the basics of Silverlight and supporting technologies. The final 2 days focus 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.

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Course Goals

  • Learn to build Silverlight applications
  • Become familiar with the .NET Framework 3.5 and the Silverlight framework
  • Learn to improve the performance of Silverlight server communication through ASP .NET AJAX
  • Learn to integrate and stream multimedia content to enhance the user experience
  • 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
  • Learn to develop and deploy complete Silverlight applications
  • Become familiar with resources that will enable you to solve problems encountered when developing Silverlight applications

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

  • Prior programming experience

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

  • HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript
  • Visual Studio, the .NET Framework, C#, VB, ASP .NET
  • Relational database experience

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Course Outline

  1. What is Silverlight?
    1. An Overview of Silverlight
    2. A Bit of History
    3. Silverlight Architecture
    4. Silverlight Hosting
    5. Silverlight Execution Environment
    6. Cross browser support
    7. Target design platform
  2. Supporting Web Technologies Primer
    1. W3C
    2. HTML
    3. CSS
    4. XML
    5. Javascript
    6. RSS
    7. REST
    8. ATOM
  3. ASP .NET Primer
    1. .NET Framework
    2. Programming Languages Overview
      1. C#
      2. Visual Basic
      3. JScript
    3. ASP .NET
      1. Regular expressions
  4. Improving Performance Through AJAX
  5. What's New in the .NET Framework 3.5
    1. XAML
    2. WPF
    3. WCF
    4. WWF
    5. CardSpace
    6. LINQ
    7. XLINQ
  6. The Silverlight Framework
    1. Overview of the framework
    2. Silverlight vs. WPF
    3. Tools
    4. New Languages
      1. IronRuby
      2. IronPython
      3. VBx
    5. Windows Live Services
    6. Creating a Silverlight Application
    7. Create a Simple Silverlight Animation
    8. Ensuring the User Has the Silverlight Plug-in Installed
    9. Silverlight in Full-Screen Mode
    10. Error Handling in Silverlight
    11. Debugging
  7. Integrating Silverlight with ASP .NET AJAX
    1. Silverlight AJAX Controls
    2. Integrate Silverlight with an ASP .NET page
    3. Upgrade the ASP .NET page to Utilize AJAX
    4. Consuming Web Services
    5. Integration with WCF
  8. Animating Silverlight
    1. Drawing Graphics
    2. Multimedia
    3. Animations
  9. Streaming Content Using Silverlight
    1. Streaming on demand content
    2. Streaming live content
  10. Accessing Data on the Server
    1. LINQ
    2. XLINQ
  11. Securing Silverlight Applications
    1. Authorization
    2. Profiles
    3. Roles
  12. Deploying Silverlight Applications
  13. 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
  14. Creating Multithreaded Silverlight Applications
    1. Background processes
    2. HTTP Downloader
  15. Advanced Silverlight Design Techniques
    1. Accessibility
    2. Globalization
    3. Handling Ink and Touch Screen Displays
    4. Search

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Course Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.

Comprehensive Silverlight Training Technical Requirements

  1. Windows Vista
  2. Visual Studio 2008
  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
  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
  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 Comprehensive Silverlight Training

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

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