Chapter 36. Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 5

In This Chapter

• Introducing Silverlight

• Creating Silverlight Projects with Visual Basic 2012

• Adding Controls and Handling Events

• Playing Media

• Animating UI Elements

• Introducing Navigation Applications

• Introducing WCF RIA Services

• “Out of Browser” Applications

• XAML Debugging

• Additional New Features

The evolution of the Internet over the years has had the consequence of requiring web applications to be even more powerful and interactive, with the addition of multimedia, animations, high-quality graphics, and even business capabilities. Although powerful for its business productivity, ASP.NET has lacked in terms of interactivity and media features. If you think ...

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