Expanded Silverlight 3 Courseware in C# and VB
November 4, 2009.
Object Innovations is pleased to announce expanded courses on Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology:
Silverlight, previously called "WPF/E" or Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere"
is an important new client-side web technology from Microsoft. It enables the implementation
of visually stunning web applications that depend only on a small, easy-to-install plug-in
that works in browsers for both Windows and Macintosh. Silverlight provides a cross-platform
and cross-browser implementation of the .NET Framework. Silverlight applications can be implemented
in .NET languages such as C# and Visual Basic as well as in JavaScript. Silverlight 3 offers new
features, such as the ability to create applications that can run outside the browser, with the
client not connected to the Internet.
The courses introduce Silverlight for C# and Visual Basic programmers and provide a thorough survey of
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), which is also the foundation of
Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). They covers Silverlight's graphics programming model,
which supports the display of both vector graphics and images, as well as animations and
multimedia. There are many example programs and labs.
The expanded coursesware ccontains extensive material on networking, data controls and data binding,
and accessing databases and XML files. There is coverage of the new out-of-browser application support
and the HTML bridge that can connect Silverlight applications with JavaScript code. The last three chapters
touch on many important new technologies from Microsoft, including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF),
REST-based Web services, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), the Entity Data Model (EDM), and ADO.NET Data Services.
The new courseware is part of an extensive .NET curriculum that thoroughly covers classic
.NET topics as well as new technologies, such as WPF, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF),
and ASP.NET AJAX. Languages used in the curriculum include C#, Visual Basic, C++/CLI, and
JavaScript. For an overview of our curriculum, please consult our
.NET Curriculum Guide.
Shipments of the new courseware begin immediately.
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