Silverlight 3 provides us some mouse events, containing MouseEnter, MouseLeave,

MouseLeftButtonDown, MouseLeftButtonUp, MouseMove, and MouseWheel. These mouse events use MouseButtonEventArgs and MouseEventArgs as parameters to catch events then active related behaviour. Through the passage we’ll learn to manage five of these events above. Please prepare some nice pictures and then let’s start to practise three samples with VWD or Visual Studio 2008.

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We’ll use lots of controls when creating Silverlight applications. These controls make development more funnier. After a fair familarity of Silverlight, this article will teach you to apply Button control to a simple Silverlight application. The effect can be displayed in the demo(FireFox only).

Of course we need to have already installed Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 and deployed Silverlight 3 development environment, as the passage How to deploy the development environment for Silverlight3 says. In this sample I adopt Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Are you ready to start? Follow me, go!

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Microsoft has published the third version of a series of professional design and Internet application tools combination, calling Expression Studio 3, which contains Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Expression Web and so on. As a full-featured professional design tool, Microsoft Expression Blend can be used to design beautiful and complicated UI for applications based on Microsoft Windows and Silverlight. That means, Blend is a useful and common tool to create WPF applications, including Silverlight, for that Silverlight is a subset of WPF. It allows designers to focus on creating while developers focus on programming. Today we will try to explain what is Microsoft Expression Blend, how it works, which tools it can be with, what it produces, what functions it has and what types of applications it can create.

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When building a new website by dreamweaver8.0, we sometimes need to adjust a mass of texts in different web pages part. How can we make it quickly and easily? You have guessed it! We need CSS styles to help us. CSS is short for the Cascading Style Sheets. When to adjust the whole page elements, we just need to modify the CSS styles rules. It is a convenient way to modify and beautify the web pages, which can reduce our work force. Now let us learn properties of CSS styles.

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Menu is used to provide convenient access to various operations such as quitting a program, or manipulating data. It is the heart of the navigation for any website. Menu Plugins let you create attractive and intuitive animated menu. If you want to find exciting menu stuffs and integrate some of them into your web pages, this is a collection you could not afford to neglect.

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There are rich controls in Silverlight projects. Though they are really easy to use as that of HTML or Frontpage, as fresher we still need to know some basic usages of them. The top-left one applies BorderControl and TextBlockControl while the bottom-left one applies ToggleControl. And the right one is made with ImageControl. In this case we’ll use VWD2008 Expression with SP1 + Silverlight 3 Tools, and we’ll step by step get these controls listed below realized in your page:

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Except common link styles, there are some special link styles, by which we can enrich the link styles. Always we need some special styles to beautify the web pages. In these cases, it is very attracting that the objects change into another style when the mouse rollovers, passes-by, or click them. Compared with the common link styles, the special link styles may be difficult to learn. But follow the following steps, you can learn it easily. Now let us learn some of these special link styles, like the following two examples.

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In previous posts like The Ultimate Collection of AJAX Form Validation Plugins (Controls) or AJAX Search: Save Time, Save Money, we have introduced some APIs and plugins, in fact there are many tools, APIs, frameworks and applications can make our developing life pretty fast and simple.

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When coming across a web page that has a good length and consists of many contents, you will find there are always some buttons such as “back to the top”. What is this? How can we achieve this impact? Yeah, it is a named anchor. Named anchors let you set markers in a document, which are often placed at a specific topic or at the top of a document. You can then create links to these named anchors, which quickly take the viewers to the specified position. Now, follow the following steps you also can make it.

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In fact, you always use hyperlinks in web pages. When you left-click the objects such as images, texts and Emails, the web page will automatically turn into another. Yes, this change is created by hyperlink in Dreamweaver 8.0. Hyperlink is the most and essential element in websites, which connect some different web pages to make up an integrated website. Its function is to build the links from one position to another. According to the differences of link paths, there are three styles–document-relative paths, site root-relative paths and absolute path in hyperlink. And when designing web pages, you maybe need email link for some objects. Left-click it and you can send email. Now let us learn how to create hyperlink and email link.

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