29. Silverlight and Rich Internet Applications

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• How Silverlight relates to WPF.

• To use Silverlight controls to create Rich Internet Applications.

• To create custom Silverlight controls.

• To use animation for enhanced GUIs.

• To display and manipulate images.

• To use Silverlight with Flickr’s web services to build an online photo-searching application.

• To create Silverlight deep zoom applications.

• To include audio and video in Silverlight applications.

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with gold and silver light.

William Butler Yeats

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Albert Einstein

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