Product Description

Essentials will teach you to create professional looking interactive user experiences using the latest version of Expression Blend.

Create Professional Looking Interactive User Experiences!

Essentials will teach you to create professional looking interactive user experiences using the latest version of Expression Blend. Once you become familiar with the interface, you’ll cover the basics from getting your application running on the Silverlight.

This training also explores prototyping with SketchFlow, a new set of functionality built into Expression Blend 4 and so much more.

Highlights:

It enables you to SketchFlow

It focuses on Behaviors & Conditional Behaviors

It ensures the PathListBox

It enables the Data Store

Entry Requirements
Basic English reading and writing skills, as full tutor support is given.

Whats Included
Learning documentation, Online Resources and Tutor support for 2 years.

Course Study Format
Course will be delivered online.

Courseware Support
The biggest advantage of studying with us is that using your unique student account, you can immediately access the course materials online and submit all the question papers to the tutor online. On submission of question papers, you will immediately, receives the email containing the results and feedback.

Study Hours
Study hour is dependent upon the dedication and grasp towards the learning concepts mentioned in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to the tutor.

Learning Hours
Approximately 300 hours.

Assessment Method

The Examination:
The course is examined in below components:

Examination Paper 1 Unit 1 Introduction to Financial Accounting
This paper is one hour and thirty minutes in length and the marks provide 50% of the overall marks of the course, AS, and 25% of A Level. There are four compulsory questions.

Examination Paper 2 Unit 2 Financial and Management Accounting
This paper is one hour and thirty minutes in length and the marks provide 50% of the overall marks of the course, AS, and 25% of A Level. There are four compulsory questions.

Examination Paper 3 Unit 3 Further Aspects of Financial Accounting
This paper is two hours in length and the marks provide 25% of A Level. There are four compulsory questions.

Examination Paper 4 Unit 4 Further Aspects of Management Accounting
This paper is two hours in length and the marks provide 25% of A Level. There are four compulsory questions.

Exams would need to be carried out at an approved examination centre. Please contact us for assistance.

Exams
Exam vouchers supplied with our courses must be used within the duration of your course. Exam Vouchers become invalid once the course has expired.

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION & TOUR (13 min)
• Introducing Expression Blend 4
• A Quick Look at the Blend Interface

Chapter 2: HELLO WORLD (15 min)
• Creating Your First Application
• Adding Basic Controls to Your First Application

Chapter 3: VISUAL DESIGN (58 min)
• The Basics of Paths
• Brushes, Shapes, Fills, Strokes & Gradients
• Convert Shape to Path, Transform Objects & Boolean Operations
• Working with Images & Clipping Paths
• Importing Adobe Photoshop Layers
• Modifying Borders
• Applying, Embedding & Managing Fonts•

Chapter 4: WORKING WITH LAYOUTS (39 min)
• The Grid Container
• Putting Things in the Right Place
• The StackPanel & ScrollViewer
• The PathListBox

Chapter 5: THE BASICS OF ANIMATIONS (45 min)
• The Basics of Animation
• Easing & Keyframes
• Controlling Animation with Behaviors
• Tweaking Animation Duration & Timing
• Tying It All Together
• Animation Interactions

Chapter 6: USING RESOURCES (31 min)
• Introduction to Resources
• Resource Scope & What it Means
• Resource Dictionaries

Chapter 7: CONTROL CUSTOMIZATION (63 min)
• What are Styles?
• What are Templates?
• Visual States
• Transitions, Transition Eects& Transition Binding
• A More Complex Control: The Scroll Bar
• Unkeyed Resources

Chapter 8: USER CONTROLS (16 min)
• What is a UserControl?
• Fixing Broken Resources in UserControls

Chapter 9: WORKING WITH DATA (47 min)
• Element to Element Data Binding
• TwoWay Data Binding
• Creating a Sample Data Source
• Data Templates
• The Master Detail View

Chapter 10: ADDING INTERACTIVITY (34 min)
• Using Events to Create Interaction
• Using Behaviors to Create Interaction
• Introduction to the Data Store
• Adding Conditional Behaviors

Chapter 11: USING SKETCHFLOW (70 min)
• Welcome to SketchFlow
• The SketchFlow Map & Creating a Prototype
• The SketchFlow Player
• Hooking Up Navigation & Component Screens
• Feedback in Both Directions
• Using the Data Store & Conditional Behaviors in a Prototype
• Displaying Data from the Data Store & Multi-State Component Screens
• SketchFlow Animations
• Credits

Job Prospects
Become fully trained and substantially improve your chances of employment or earn more money!

Skills Assessments
Test yourself and receive a certificate online. Multiple choice or fill in the blanks style questioning helps you remember and learn.

Certificates
Upon completion of the course, you can download the completion certificate as well as any other qualifications you have been awarded.

Interactive simulations
Feel like you are actually using the software you are being trained about in the added security of our learning environment.

Printable reference guides and exercises
Every chapter has its own hands on exercises for you to carry out to help you gain essential experience. You also have automatic glossary and search features to help you use the course as a ‘quick reference’ guide.

Course Completion Certificate

*Please note, unless stated otherwise or included in package, our online courses only offer course completion certificates ( £10 fee) and in all cases official testing (at a charge made by testing centre) is required to gain officially certified recognised qualifications.

Our Online IT Training Courses are available 24 hours a day,
7 days a week for any computer that has online access!

Unless otherwise specified, official exams are not included.