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 you. It is assumed that the readers have some previous exposure to Silverlight or WPF.

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.

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