Instant Silverlight 5 Animation.

This book is written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations. If you are a developer looking forward to create great user experience for your Silverlight applications with cool animations or create Silverlight banner ads, then this is the guide for...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Polyak, Nick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Packt Publishing, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Building Blocks of Animation; Spinning control sample; Defining a dependency property in C♯ code; Defining visual presentation for spinning control; Bindings; Transforms; Storyboards and animations; Adding a rotation animation to our code; A brief overview of different Silverlight animation classes; Attached properties; Summary; Chapter 2: Animations in Business Logic Silverlight Applications; Animating Silverlight controls; Tools for animating controls.
  • Animating a built-in buttonCreating and animating custom button control; Animating navigation panels; Summary; Chapter 3: Creating Animated Textures; Background on Perlin noise; A bit of history; Perlin noise algorithm; Multi-scale Perlin Noise; Basic Perlin noise; Perlin noise algorithm implementation; ImageProcessingLibrary; Cloud simulation; Fire simulation; Summary; Chapter 4: 3D Animations in Silverlight; Perspective transform; Silverlight 5 three-dimensional functionality; 3D models; Vertex and pixel shaders; Compiling pixel shaders.
  • Enabling your Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Studio 2012 to create and compile shadersCreating the moving triangle application; The moving prism application; The 3D related topics that were left out; Summary; Chapter 5: Building an Animated Banner; What we aim to build; The globe image; Perspective transform; Code description; Referring to the globe image within an XAML file; Creating rotating lines of text; Animation storyboard; Placing the Silverlight banner within an HTML file; Summary; Appendix A: Creating and starting a Silverlight project.
  • Appendix B: AppendChanging the XAML formattingAppendix C: Installing snippets; Appendix D: Using snippets; Index.