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Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2nd Edition
written by Laurence Moroney
Studio : Microsoft Press
by Microsoft Press
Publisher : Microsoft Press
Released : 2008-06-21
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780735625280
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 4 reviews)
List Price : $34.99
Our Price : $18.80
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Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2 tools with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs are Web applications with the features and functionality of full desktop applications. Processing tasks are performed on the client, but data is stored on the server. With Silverlight, RIAs install quickly via a small, on-demand plug-in. This book demonstrates how you can easily use existing skills and tools to deliver next-generation user interfaces and media experiences. You ll discover how to begin building different types of Silverlight-based solutions, generate Silverlight applications dynamically on the server, create an XAML service, and more. The book also features a companion Web site with code samples in Microsoft Visual C# and Visual Basic . Key Book Benefits: * Delivers practical, grounded advice from a member of the Silverlight team, including an insider's view of the evolution of this Web presentation technology
* Describes how Silverlight 2 will simplify development and deployment of RIAs with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2008
* Provides context about the relationships among Silverlight and the various .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 technologies
* Places RIAs in context for both Web and Windows-based developers
* Features a companion Web site with code samples in Visual C# and Visual Basic |
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Intro Silverlight 2 |
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Well written book. Laurence gives great advice along with examples. I'm a nooby at Silverlight and this definitively helps. |
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Solid Intro to Silverlight 2 beta 2 |
This review refers to the beta 2 version of the book. This book is exactly what the title says - it is a good, solid introduction to programming Silverlight 2 beta 2 in C#.
Laurence does a good job of covering all of the basics of writing Silverlight applications - his web site has a good table of contents (http://blogs.msdn.com/webnext/) which clearly describes the books contents.
One of the features of the book that I especially like is the valuable information about how to run Silverlight from a Linux system and also information about using Silverlight with PHP, Java, MySQL, JavaScript, AJAX, Ruby, and IronPython.
Laurence has been very responsive in helping to resolve any issue with the code that I have had. The book's code is Silverlight 2 beta 2; however, there has been one minor upgrade and I am sure that there will be more so having good response from the author is very important when dealing with beta software.
I do highly recommend this book as a basic introduction to writing Silverlight 2 beta 2 code in C#.
David Roh
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Great book worth recommending |
This book has a great introduction of Silverlight 1.0, and had a nice flow of documentation that made the book a fun read. The book covered the silverlight platform well, and illustrated a few examples of how Silverlight can work in conjunction with a few other technologies like Asp.net and PHP.
The book had very good code samples to illustrate specific points of Silverlight 1.0 technology, and additionally included a good primer on the upcoming Silverlight 1.1. Overall I think this book is a great resource to get up and running on Silverlight in a short period of time. |
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A complement to Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed |
I do recommend Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed as the best Silverlight reference so far. However, Introducting Silverlight does have a couple things that I haven't seen in other books:
- A whole chapter--albeit a very short one--is devoted to Silverlight ink support. It has a useful sample to pull together concepts from the SDK.
- The author also showed a little of his developer evangelist motivations by including a quick look at integrating Silverlight into non-Microsoft platforms: Java (JSP) and PHP with MySQL. The example was basic, but it did add a welcome extra dimension to the book--and quite interesting to see the ease/portability of Silverlight.
This book probably won't be your end-all reference for Silverlight 1.0 (I do prefer the free SDK over this title), but it does make a for a good read-it-and-resell-it book. |
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