| Description |
1 online resource (ii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Layouts and General Content Organization; Introduction; Fluid layout; Creating a navigation pane from the scratch; Window management and positioning; Wizards; Progressive disclosure-showing additional controls on demand; Control docking with DockPanel; Journal navigation; Tabs; Adding a status bar area; Chapter 2: Actions and Commands; Introduction; Command buttons; Classical menus; Context (right-click) menus; Progress indicators with known process duration |
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Progress indicators with unknown process durationCreating menu drop-down; Command links; Split button and creating one from scratch; Multiple item selections with simple ListBox; Multiple item selections with ListBox and CheckBox combinations; Chapter 3: Searching, Finding, and Navigating; Introduction; Designing prominent action points; How to create faceted navigation and classification; Creating tree views; Creating and using expanders and collapsible panels; Creating and using a paging pattern; Using titled sections; Creating and using task panes (aka Action Panels) |
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Creating and utilizing promoted actionsChapter 4: Date and Time Input, Tables, and Ratings; Introduction; Designing date picker interface; Using and implementing the calendar interface; Designing time input interface; Implementing star-based rating; Designing list views with alternating row colors; Chapter 5: Maps, Pop-up Windows, and Escaping the Browser; Introduction; Implementing pop-up window (modal dialogs) in Silverlight; Designing responsive enabling user interface; Adding maps to Silverlight applications; Building full-screen Silverlight experiences |
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Implementing out-of-browser experiencesChapter 6: New Controls and Avant-Garde Features; Introduction; Webcam support and printing; Exploring and using pixel shaders and effects; Animating ListBox items; PathListBox-abandoning the rectangular ListBox; Index |
| Summary |
Annotation Silverlight makes it much easier to build web applications with highly usable, interactive, and exciting user interfaces. However, with so many new options open to designers and developers, making the best use of the tools available is not always so easy. It's ease of use and rapid development process has left one area completely uncovered_ how to design, build, and implement professional and usable interfaces, and create an enjoyable user experience and interaction.<br /><br />Written by a Microsoft MVP and Silverlight Prototyping Specialist, this book is the first and only book on developing Silverlight User Interfaces. Clear, step-by-step instructions show how to build all the user interface elements that users look forward to in a cutting edge app. This book offers essential recipes, with each recipe depicting the commonly used user interface patterns built with Silverlight, and in some cases, with WPF to showcase the possibilities.<br /><br />The author's experience in designing and developing user interfaces enables him to share insights on creating professional interfaces in a clear and friendly way. The book starts off with recipes dealing with fixed and fluid layouts, building custom command link controls, working with navigation, and collapsible panels, and then moves on to the more advanced topics such as calendars, alternating row colors, and task panes. The author covers a number of different UI patterns, controls, and approaches accompanied by XAML and C♯ code where needed (and explained), along with usage context and practical, proven, and professional techniques for specific controls and patterns.<br /><br />From maps to task panes, and web cam support to pixel shaders, this Cookbook provides you with a rich selection of Silverlight UI recipes. It covers all that you need to know in order to design and implement a user interface, together with professional user experience and interface guidelines to make your solutions and applications pleasurable for your users. The author has found himself in the role of both, a designer and a developer, at different points in his professional career, and his motive was to create a book that will serve as a useful resource for designers and developers trying to find their way with Silverlight and Expression Blend. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a rich, professional, and standards-compliant user interface.<br /><br />Design and implement professional user interfaces with Silverlight |
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Print version record |
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Silverlight (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007061235
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Microsoft Expression blend. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008035435
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Microsoft Expression blend fast |
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Silverlight (Electronic resource) fast |
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Multimedia systems.
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User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design
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COMPUTERS -- Web -- Web Programming.
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Multimedia systems
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User interfaces (Computer systems) -- Design
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Handbooks and manuals
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kinney, Adam
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| ISBN |
9781847198877 |
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1847198872 |
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1847198864 |
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9781847198860 |
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