Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X).

Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.

What you’ll learn

This 176 page book is meant to give you a sense of what you, as a programmer, can expect from Silverlight in terms of what the user is going to see. The emphasis here is on understanding what Silverlight has to offer. While there is some code given, that is not the point of the book. The point is to be ably to quickly understand what functionality is available to you, what options you might have without getting bogged down in much code.

Who is this book for?

We assume that you are a programmer and that you have an understanding of XAML. However, if you do ignore the code that exists in the book, then any lay person or even an administrator, can come to grips with the visual element of Silverlight.

Related Titles from Apress

• Pro WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.0
• Pro Silverlight 2
• Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

About the Author

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.

Photoshop®: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides adventurous Photoshop users with a visual reference on how to use the bells and whistles found in the latest version of Photoshop. Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, Photoshop®: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks covers 100 cool and useful tips and tricks that can be performed in the newest release of Photoshop. Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show you how to take their Photoshop skills to new heights. Order the latest edition today and make your pictures pop.

You already know Photoshop CS3 basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop CS3.

1. Minimal text and maximum illustrations

2. Task-oriented, step-by-step approach

3. Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations

4. Self-contained, two-page lessons

5. Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more

How easy is it?

Look for these symbols marking the difficulty of each task.

• Demonstrates a new spin on a common task

• Introduces a new skill or a new task

• Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge

• Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies

About the Author

Lynette Kent (Huntington Beach, CA) studied art and French at Stanford University. After completing her master’s degree, she taught at both the high school and community college level. In addition to writing books and magazine articles, Lynette is adding to her portfolio, combining high-end photography and digital techniques. She often works at trade shows as a demo artist for computer graphics hardware and software companies. Her books on digital imaging and photography include Photoshop CS2: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Digital Photography, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac OS X Leopard, and Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements: The Creative Cropping Cookbook. Lynette is also one of the leaders of the Adobe Technology Exchange of Southern California, a professional organization for graphic designers, photographers, and artists.

Essential skills made easy! Written by Herb Schildt, the world’s leading programming author, this step-by-step book is ideal for first-time programmers or those new to C++. The modular approach of this series, including sample projects and progress checks, makes it easy to learn to use C++ at your own pace.

About the Author

Herbert Schildt (Mahomet, IL) is a leading programming author. He is an authority on the C, C++, Java, and C# programming languages, and a master Windows programmer. His programming books have sold more than three million copies worldwide and have been translated into all major foreign languages. He is the author of numerous best-sellers including, C++: The Complete Reference, C: The Complete Reference, C++ from the Ground Up, Java 2: The Complete Reference, Java 2: A Beginner's Guide, C#: A Beginner's Guide, The Art of Java and many more. Schildt holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Impromptu speaking requires both timing and tact. With practice, spontaneity and the confidence the ability to make planned remarks seem ad-libbed and conversational can be learned. This book is a comprehensive approach to speaking for all occasions, and a guide to knowing what to say, when to say it, and how to say it right. It will teach you how to: Say a few words whenever and wherever called upon; Make your arguments clear, concise, and effective. Add depth to any new product announcement. Provide wisdom and comfort at a friend's funeral. Craft original speeches and presentations. Collect quotes that communicate volumes with just the right "few words." Map out your communication through a fill-in-the-blank process. Know how the colors you wear will influence an audience. And much more. Now it's time to learn how to do it easily, effectively, and fearlessly...in front of a group.

Pocket-size text guides readers in putting words together to motivate, direct, entertain, and succeed in communication challenges. Softcover. DLC: Extemporaneous speaking.

This book offers a modern updated review on the most important activities in today dynamical systems and statistical mechanics by some of the best experts in the domain. It gives a contemporary and pedagogical view on theories of classical and quantum chaos and complexity in hamiltonian and ergodic systems and their applications to anomalous transport in fluids, plasmas, oceans and atom-optic devices and to control of chaotic transport. The book is issued from lecture notes of the International Summer School on "Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems" held in Cargèse (Corsica) 18th to the 30th August 2003. It reflects the spirit of the School to provide lectures at the post-doctoral level on basic concepts and tools. The first part concerns ergodicity and mixing, complexity and entropy functions, SRB measures, fractal dimensions and bifurcations in hamiltonian systems. Then, models of dynamical evolutions of transport processes in classical and quantum systems have been largely explained. The second part concerns transport in fluids, plasmas and reacting media. On the other hand, new experiments of cold optically trapped atoms and electrodynamics cavity have been thoroughly presented. Finally, several papers bear on synchronism and control of chaos.

The target audience of the proceedings are physicists, mathematicians and all scientists involved in Chaos and Dynamical Systems Theory and their fundamental applications in Physics and in the Science of Complex and Nonlinear phenomena.

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Programming

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 140 key Excel programming techniques, including:

• Assigning digital signatures to macros

• Setting properties for a project

• Assigning values to a variable

• Changing the properties of an object

• Formatting a numeric expression

• Processing a runtime error

• Saving worksheets to another file

• Displaying a built-in dialog box

• Creating custom Ribbon tabs

• Building and debugging add-ins

Extra Apply It 

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Denise Etheridge is a certified public accountant as well as the president and founder of Baycon Group, Inc. She publishes Web sites, provides consulting services on accounting-related software, and authors computer-related books. You can visit www.baycongroup.com to view her online tutorials.

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:

• Identifying trends in your data

• Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists

• Creating, editing, and checking formulas

• Calculating interest rates and depreciation

• Performing simple sorts and filters

• Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable

• Adding and removing chart data

• Querying an Access database

• Assigning digital signatures

• Solving a formula with a data table

"I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss."
—Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

Restore, refresh, and fine-tune your favorite photos

Take years off your keepsake photos or enhance the current ones with Photoshop CS3's powerful tools and the expert techniques and tips you'll find in this comprehensive guide. Using step-by-step instructions and over 500 pages of full-color examples, this book shows you how to clone, blend layers, add contrast, reduce glare, and more. From portraits to landscapes to architectural masterpieces, fine-tune your favorites with this expert guide.

• Harness the tools of the retouching trade: brushes, cloning, and others

• Use layers and masks to build a non-destructive workflow

• Rescue faded, torn, or stained photographs

• Soften wrinkles, brighten eyes, tame hair, and smooth skin

• Restore sepia-toned, black-and-white, and full-color photographs

• Master resizing, resampling, resolution, and scanning

Visit www.wiley.com/go/restoration and download the practice files from the book. You can start with the original images and work through the author's step-by-step instructions in the book.

About the Author

Mark Fitzgerald is a Photoshop teacher and consultant who specializes in helping professional photographers thrive in the digital age. He has taught hundreds of photographers how to smooth out their workflow and get the most from their important images—through private training, classes, and workshops. Mark is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert and an Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor. He and his wife Julia (with their two dogs, Ruby and Hazel) live in Portland, Oregon, where Mark owns a consulting business called The Digital Darkroom.

"...excellent and interesting reading for digital signal processing engineers and designers and for postgraduate students in electrical and computer faculties." (Mathematical Reviews, 2002d)

Signal Analysis explores methods that offer an insight into the properties of signals and stochastic processes. This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an introduction to the fundamental theory of signal analysis. It bridges the gap between the basic knowledge in system theory and the specialist knowledge in various fields of signal processing and provides a complete overview of current applications. Features include:

• Focus on both classical and modern approaches to transforms, such as the KarhunenLoève transform and the discrete Fourier transform
• Enhancement of the understanding and relation of transform theory
• Discussion of recent and emerging topics, including filter banks with perfect reconstruction time-frequency and wavelets.

With its great accuracy and technical merit, Signal Analysis is essential reading for signal processing engineers, researchers, undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers of electrical and computer engineering.

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Explores methods that offer an insight into the properties of signals and stochastic processes. Provides an introduction to the fundamental theory of signal analysis bridging the gap between the basic knowledge in system theory and the specialist knowledge in various fields of signal processing.