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Behaviors 44 7 Styles 44 7 Defining a Style 44 8 Applying a Style 44 9 xiv www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS Dynamic Styles 45 0 Style Inheritance 45 0 Organizing Styles 45 2 Automatically Applying Styles by Type 45 2 Behaviors 45 4 Getting Support for Behaviors 45 4 Triggers and Actions... 40 2 Changing Volume, Balance, and Position 40 3 Playing Video 40 7 Client-Side Playlists 40 8 Server-Side Playlists 40 8 Progressive Downloading and Streaming 40 9 Adaptive Streaming 41 1 Advanced Video Playback 41 2 Video Encoding 41 2 Encoding in Expression Encoder 41 3 Markers 41 5... xxi www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS About the Author ■ Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and Microsoft MVP for Silverlight He’s the author of more than a dozen books about NET programming, including Pro WPF in C# 2010, Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010, and Beginning ASP.NET in C# 2010 He’s also the author of Your Brain: The Missing Manual (Pogue Press, 2008), a popular look at getting the most from your... Actions 45 5 Creating a Behavior 46 5 Finding More Behaviors 46 8 The Last Word 47 0 ■ Chapter 13: Templates and Custom Controls 47 1 Template Basics 47 1 Creating a Template 47 2 Reusing Control Templates 47 3 The ContentPresenter 47 4 Template Bindings 47 5 Setting Templates Through... 47 6 Reusing Colors 47 8 The Parts and States Model 47 8 Understanding States with the Button Control 48 0 Showing a Focus Cue 48 4 Transitions 48 5 Understanding Parts with the Slider Control 49 0 Creating Templates for Custom Controls 49 4 Planning the FlipPanel Control 49 5 Creating the Solution 49 6... VideoBrush 42 0 Video Effects 42 1 Webcam and Microphone Input 42 7 Accessing a Capture Device 42 7 Basic Webcam Support 42 9 Recording Audio Snippets 43 2 Deep Zoom 43 6 Creating a Deep Zoom Image Set 43 8 Using a Deep Zoom Image Set in Silverlight 44 2 The Last Word 44 5 ■ Chapter 12: Styles... point, you can click the Get Microsoft Silverlight picture to be taken to Microsoft’s website, where you will be prompted to install the plug -in and then will be sent back to the original page On the bottom is the page you’ll see once the Silverlight plug -in is installed www.it-ebooks.info ■ INTRODUCTION Figure 1 Installing the Silverlight plug -in ■ Note At the time of this writing, Silverlight 4 is... that follow the introduction in each chapter They point out features that are new to Silverlight 4 so you can home in on its changes and enhancements BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IN SILVERLIGHT 4 At this point, you might be wondering whether existing Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 applications can run on a computer that has only the latest version of the Silverlight plug -in (version 4) installed It’s a... example, to all the buttons in a window) This convenient feature makes it almost effortless to reskin an application Chapter 12 explains how automatic styles work Data-binding refinements: Silverlight 4 adds data-binding properties that allow you to handle null values and apply simple formatting with a minimum of work You’ll learn more in Chapter 16 xxx www.it-ebooks.info ■ INTRODUCTION • • File drag-and-drop:... Understanding Silverlight Animation 339 The Rules of Animation 340 Creating Simple Animations 341 The Animation Class 341 The Storyboard Class 342 Starting an Animation with an Event Trigger 343 Starting an Animation with Code 344 Configuring Animation Properties 345 Animation Lifetime 347 Simultaneous . Set in Silverlight 44 2 The Last Word 44 5 ■ Chapter 12: Styles and Behaviors 44 7 Styles 44 7 Defining a Style 44 8 Applying a Style 44 9 www.it-ebooks.info ■ CONTENTS xv Dynamic Styles 45 0. 978-1 -43 02-2979-7 9 78 143 0 229797 5 49 9 9 Silverlight 4 in C# Full Color Inside Pro 7 x 9.125 spine = 2.09375" 912 page count THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN SILVERLIGHT Pro Silverlight 4 in C# Matthew. Applications with Silverlight 4 Pro Silverlight 4 in C# Pro WPF in C# 2010 Introducing Silverlight 4 Beginning Silverlight 4 in C# www.apress.com SOURCE CODE ONLINE Companion eBook See last page for