Roman Patutin: Подготовка к экзамену 70-506: Silverlight 4, Development. Часть 2: Enhancing the User Interface

Что нужно знать:

Create or modify control styles.
This objective may include but is not limited to: setting a style locally, setting a style at the page control level, setting a style globally, implementing implicit styles, overriding styles at different levels, creating based-on styles
Create control templates.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a template, attaching a template, implementing a content placeholder, implementing template binding
Create or modify data templates.
This objective may include but is not limited to: modifying item templates for data controls, creating a create template, creating an update template, using a user control as a data template
Manipulate visuals.
This objective may include but is not limited to: transforming controls by using skew transformations, rotate transformations, scale transformations, translate transformations, or perspective transformations; applying pixel shaders
Animate visuals.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating storyboards, programmatically starting and stopping storyboards, implementing easing functions, using keyframes, triggering storyboard on load, repeating and reversing storyboards, setting keyframe begin time, responding to events, configuring bitmap caching
Implement behaviors.
This objective may include but is not limited to: triggering storyboards by using behaviors, dragging and dropping elements, calling a method
Manage the visual state.
This objective may include but is not limited to: creating states, creating state groups, transitioning states, programmatically changing states

MSDN:

1. Create or modify control styles.
Собственно, сам Class Style.
Setting a style locally
Setting a style at the page control level
Setting a style globally
Implementing implicit styles
Overriding styles at different levels
Creating based-on styles

2. Create control templates.
Class ControlTemplate
Creating a template
Attaching a template
Implementing a content placeholder (видимо имелось ввиду ContentPresenter)
Implementing template binding

3. Create or modify data templates.
Class DataTemplate
Modifying item templates for data controls
Creating a create template
Creating an update template
Using a user control as a data template

4. Manipulate visuals.
Transforming controls by using skew transformations
Rotate transformations
Scale transformations
Translate transformations
Perspective transformations
Applying pixel shaders
CompositeTransform (в списке, почему-то, не указан, но знать нужно обязательно)
TransformGroup (тоже)

5. Animate visuals.
Creating storyboards
Programmatically starting and stopping storyboards (пауза и возобновление)
Implementing easing functions
Using keyframes
Triggering storyboard on load
Repeating and reversing storyboards
Setting keyframe begin time
Responding to events
Configuring bitmap caching

6. Implement behaviors.
Тут я ничего не понял, видимо имелся ввиду StoryboardTrigger и производный от него StoryboardCompletedTrigger. Ну и ControlStoryboardAction тоже стоит посмотреть.
Triggering storyboards by using behaviors
Dragging and dropping elements
Calling a method

7. Manage the visual state.
Class VisualStateManager
Creating states
Creating state groups
Transitioning states
Programmatically changing states

Блоги/Статьи (в основном RU)
Mark Monster (EN)
SilverLight 3: Стили и ресурсы
Использование элементов стиля в Silverlight 2
Эти простые стили и ресурсы
Раздел Стили и Шаблоны на silverlight.su
Использование шаблонов для настройки внешнего вида и поведения контролов (Перевод Скота Гатри)
Применение функций ListBox и DataBinding для отображения данных списка (Перевод Скота Гатри)
Использование инструментов стилизации для улучшения внешнего вида приложения (Перевод Скота Гатри)
Темплейты
Вводное руководство по WPF - Часть V (Стили)
Вводное руководство по WPF - Часть IV (Шаблоны данных и триггеры)
Трансформация в Silverlight
Использование CompositeTransform в Silverlight 4
Трюки при создании и использовании элементов управления WPF и Silverlight
Простые поведения в Silverlight
Создание анимации с помощью XAML и Expression Blend
VisualStateManager или как удобно определить внешний вид приложений на WPF и Silverlight