Silverlight Resources
This help file focuses on ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight. For general help on getting started with Silverlight, we recommend the following resources:
The official Silverlight site, with many links to downloads, samples, tutorials, and more.
•http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx
Silverlight tutorials by Jesse Liberty. Topics covered include:
•Tutorial 1: Silverlight User Interface Controls
•Tutorial 2: Data Binding
•Tutorial 3: Displaying SQL Database Data in a DataGrid using LINQ and WCF
•Tutorial 4: User Controls
•Tutorial 5: Styles, Templates and Visual State Manager
•Tutorial 6: Expression Blend for Developers
•Tutorial 7: DataBinding & DataTemplates Using Expression Blend
•Tutorial 8: Multi-page Applications
•Tutorial 9: ADO.NET DataEntities and WCF Feeding a Silverlight DataGrid
•Tutorial 10: Hyper-Video
•http://timheuer.com/blog/articles/getting-started-with-silverlight-development.aspx
Silverlight tutorials by Tim Heuer. Topics covered include:
•Part 1: Really getting started – the tools you need and getting your first Hello World
•Part 2: Defining UI Layout – understanding layout and using Blend to help
•Part 3: Accessing data – how to get data from where
•Part 4: Binding the data – once you get the data, how can you use it?
•Part 5: Integrating additional controls – using controls that aren’t a part of the core
•Part 6: Polishing the UI with styles and templates
•Part 7: Taking the application out-of-browser
•http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-posts.aspx
Scott Guthrie's Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page. A useful resource, this page links to several tutorials and samples.
•http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx
An excellent eight-part tutorial by Scott Guthrie, covering the following topics:
•Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008
•Part 2: Using Layout Management
•Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid
•Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel
•Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data
•Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios
•Part 7: Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel
•Part 8: Creating a Digg Desktop Version of our Application using WPF
•http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/archive/2008/03/11/silverlight-2-control-skins.aspx
A practical discussion of skinning Silverlight controls and applications by Corrina Barber.