Introduction to Silverlight Introduce Silverlight 4 Compare declarative and procedural coding styles Investigate the Silverlight designer in Visual Studio 2010 Learn about controls and events in Silverlight 4 Layout Understand how the layout system works in Silverlight See how to use various containers to control layout See how to use alignment and sizing to control layout Simple Controls Investigate Border, Button, CheckBox and RadioButton controls View and enter text using TextBlock, TextBox and PasswordBox controls Work with dates using the DatePicker and Calendar controls Add visual flair using the Slider, ProgressBar and MediaElement controls Advanced Controls Learn how to use controls that enable users to select an item from a list See how to add menus to applications Explore controls that enable you to better organize content Styles and Resources Investigate XAML Resources Learn about the hierarchy of resources Work with resources programmatically Organize resources with resource dictionaries Experiment with XAML Styles Apply Styles dynamically Work with Style inheritance Navigation Explore navigation in WPF applications See how to build page-based applications that support navigation Learn how to navigate using XAML and code See how to build the Navigation Application project template Binding Learn to use Binding objects to bind data sources and targets Add data converters to manage conversion during the binding process Use data templates to modify the layout of bound data in lists Working with Data See hot to retrieve data from a WCF service Create common data bound forms See how to display information from main and related tables Advanced Data Controls Explore how to use the DataGrid control to display data See how to use the DataGrid control to edit data Learn how to use the DataForm and DataPager controls to display data Shapes and Geometries Learn to use basic shapes: lines, ellipses, rectangles, and polygons Add line caps and joins Work with geometries and paths Investigate the geometry mini-language Brushes and Transforms Work with solid, gradient, and image brushes Add transparency effects, including opacity mask Investigate built-in transforms Add reflection effect using opacity mask and transforms Deployment See how to deploy Silverlight applications See how to deploy out-of-browser applications Explore how to cusomize the installation of Silverlight Introducing Expression Blend Compare Visual Studio and Expression Blend Examine the Blend integrated development environment Learn about Expression Blend’s designer panels Integrate Expression Blend with Visual Studio Create resources and set up element-to-element binding in Expression Blend Introducing Animation Understand how animation works in XAML applications Examine animation, storyboard, and trigger objects Learn to start animations in code Work with DoubleAnimation, ColorAnimation, and PointAnimation objects Examine properties of the animation classes Try out various easing functions Use Expression Blend to interactively create animations Additional Data Techniques See how to store data locally with isolated storage See how to retrieve data from a WCF data service and work with it in a Silverlight application Silverlight and Networking See how to make cross-domain calls from Silverlight applications Explore how to use the WebClient class to request data from Web Sites