• French version

I recently completed writing my book Silverlight Practice wich is dedicated to technology of the same name. It should be over 500 pages and focuses on learning good practices and team production. It is published by Pearson Education France and released February 2, 2010. I have not designed as a glossary of features but rather as a production guide and learning. He draws a sketch of the design of Silverlight applications, starting from the display list to loading external data in the design model MVVM through prototyping or organizational workflow.

The general idea of the book is to provide concrete examples downloadable for both designers and for developers. You can reserve a copy on the website of Pearson France here.

This book is for Web integrators, interactive designers, graphic designers and pure web developers unfamiliar platform. Net. It creates a bridge between development and design, to improve collaboration and productivity.

Its content takes into account the specificities of developers and designers of interactive forms of complementary exercises. The C # is chosen as the only logical language for clarity. The theory, examples and exercises (downloadable) are progressive and can be a learning base for non-developers. However this is not a book for beginners Web, but to those who have acquired bases on other technologies.

Here is the summary of the book:)

Part I. Approach Silverlight

1. Introduction
1.1 What does Silverlight?
1.2 In. Net 1 to Silverlight
1.3 The benefits of Silverlight
1.4 The Expression Studio
1.5 Positioning business
1.6 Development language and choice

2. The couple XAML / C #
2.1 XML
2.2 XAML, a declarative language powerful
2.3 The fundamentals of C #

3. HelloWorld
3.1 A first Silverlight application
3.2 Architecture of a solution
3.3 The root container
3.4 Add Text
3.5 Test and compile

4. A site full screen in 2 minutes
4.1 type projects website
4.2 Creating resizable containers
4.3 The component button
4.4 Add interactivity
4.5 Files deployed

5. The visual and logical tree
5.1 Components Visual
5.2 Principle of Nesting
5.3 Adding children to the display list
5.4 Remove objects from the visual tree
5.5 Exchange index

Part II. Interactivity and graphic design

6. Animation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Animating with Expression Blend
6.3 Managing acceleration
6.4 Animating with C
6.5 The transformations on
6.6 Animate particles

7. Buttons
7.1 Create a video player
7.2 Visual Style
7.3 Generic Button
7.4 The manager of visual states
7.5 The switch or button ToggleButton

8. Interactivity and event model
8.1 The foundations of event model
8.2 withdrawn listening to an event
8.3 The weak coupling in practice
8.4 Event Propagation
8.5 The behavior

9. The basics of 3D projection
9.1 The 3D environment
9.2 The properties of 3D
9.3 The camera
9.4 Introduction to matrices

10. Prototyping dynamic SketchFlow
10.1 The Environment
10.2 Simple Prototype
10.3 The player SketchFlow
10.4 Interactivity
10.5 Interface rich

Part III. Designing rich applications

11. Graphic Resources
11.1 What is a resource
11.2 brushes
11.3 Fonts
11.4 Styles and component models
11.5 The model Slider
11.6 connections
11.7 The model ListBox

12. Custom Components
User Control 12.1
12.2 Connection Box
12.3 Custom Controls

13. Media and Data
13.1 Loading media
13.1.1 Dynamic loading of images
13.1.2 video formats and modes of dissemination
13.1.3 A simple video player
13.1.4 Dynamic Loading videos
13.2 Design MVVM
13.2.1 Principles
12.2.2 Model
12.2.3 Model-View
13.3 Loading Data
13.3.1 The object WebClient
13.3.2 Introduction to LINQ
13.3.3 Lambda Expression
13.3.4 Consuming XML with LINQ
13.3.5 Loading a JSON feed
13.3.6 Cross Domain Security

• French version

For the purposes of a recent production, I had to design a control named PieProgressBar. This class inherits RangeBase and as such has all the capabilities inherent in this type of control. It behaves in the end like any type ProgressBar control with a few more things. The hard part was to create dynamically pie in C #. Unlike WPF, Silverlight does not allow to override method to create new kinds of Shape. In other words, even if Shape is an abstract class, it is useless to inherit because the method of route design can not be overloaded.
The other technique is to use the "Path mini language" for creating geometric shapes in XAML. I had to use 3 segments with a ArcSegment to achieve this control. as I could not create primitive Pie for the designer in Blend, it took cunning ... The technique involves creating a pie chart dynamically when assigning a control part (ControlPart). Internally, the properties of filling the route generated, are related to properties of the control via a simple data binding created in C #.
You can see some examples below and download the library tweenedcontrols here.

Once the dll referenced, you can instantiate the control PieProgressBar in Blend through the Assets panel as shown below:

This component will probably be included as others in the CodePlex project SLExtensions. Thierry Bouquain updates it at this time and I welcome the move