Chapter 8. The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors

The Silverlight MediaElement: Create a Video Player with a Custom UserControl, XML De-serialization, and Behaviors

  • Defining the Silverlight MediaElement

  • Comparing Silverlight versus Flash for video

  • Building a Silverlight media player

    • Parsing and de-serializing XML

    • Turning XML into native Silverlight data objects

    • Using the drag-and-drop Behavior

    • Creating a singleton DataFactory

    • Creating a custom UserControl

Because Silverlight 4 was designed to develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) with lots of embedded media such as video and audio, the MediaElement is a very important and useful tool, so I have decided to dedicate an entire chapter to it. ...

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