Accelerated Silverlight 2 [Paperback]

Jeff Scanlon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1430210761 | ISBN-13: 978-1430210764 | Publication Date: October 23, 2008 | Edition: 1

Silverlight 2 is a new web development technology from Microsoft that is already causing huge waves within the development community. It is the natural successor to Ajax and ASP.NET AJAX-style applications and provides a means for web-pages to provide the seamless and rich user experience that is currently only available from desktop-based applications.

Building on the proven approach of Apress’ Accelerated C# and Accelerated VB titles this book provides readers with a fast-track to mastering this technology by building on the skills that experienced .NET developers already have already acquired. In a tightly packed five-hundred pages readers will be shown everything they need to know to become proficient in Silverlight 2 development.

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About the Author

Jeff Scanlon is an independent Microsoft consultant with extensive experience developing software using a variety of technologies. He designs and implements software across all layers with a focus on web based applications. Jeff has lead developer training sessions on software engineering practices and introductions to new technologies at nearly every company he has worked. His current work includes prototyping applications using technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Communication Foundation and ASP.NET. His writing includes "Professional Java Programming with JDK 5" and its updated edition and articles on .NET in Software Development magazine. He holds several Microsoft certifications and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Julian Skinner has been developing applications for over a decade. He has used a variety of Microsoft development technologies to create applications for both commercial and government entities on the Microsoft .NET platform. During his time as both a software developer and an IT Consultant, he has been a part of all aspects of the SDLC, ranging from technical requirements gathering to deployment in large scale environments. He has designed databases, implemented business logic components and designed user interfaces for both Windows and web applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (October 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430210761
• ISBN-13: 978-1430210764
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,531,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent content delivered efficiently, November 2, 2008

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This review is from: Accelerated Silverlight 2 (Paperback)

This book is only 330 pages long, each chapter averaging 22 pages, and yet, it packs a lot of good to excellent content, with each of the first 14 chapters providing the building-block information that would enable one to build what the author has called a real-world style application, the Campus Explorer discussed in the last chapter. While there is more to building real-world business applications than what the author had been able to address, the author hit all the right spots, showing readers how to: securely communicate with code deployed in same- or cross-domain servers to get application data, bind those data to user interfaces styled to mimick ASP.Net's Master and ContentPlaceHolder concepts, handle data-sharing, multithreading, and dynamic content-loading issues, test and debug application code including Automated UI Testing, and build, package and deploy application code. In addition to covering all the popular bread-and-butter concepts such as Data- and Control-Templating, Animation, and how to work with Audio and Video files, the book also includes good discussions of Visual State Manager (Chapter 8), Dynamic Language Support (Chapter 10) and an excellent discussion of how to use IsolatedStorageFile effectively. This book is very well written and organized, and delivers good to excellent contents efficiently. (Note: the source code for the book can be downloaded from the website mentioned at the end of the introduction, acceleratedsilverlight.net ).