Silverlight 2 Bible [Paperback]

Brad Dayley (Author), Lisa DaNae Dayley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0470375000 | ISBN-13: 978-0470375006 | Edition: 1

Create rich, cross-platform, interactive Web applications with Microsoft's new Silverlight and this essential guide. Designers will discover how to add animation, audio, video, and other high-impact effects. Programmers will cover Visual Studio, .NET, and other programming tools—and work with Silverlight's presentation, communications, and data frameworks. Packed with techniques, tips, and a 16-page color insert of striking examples, this is the book you need to succeed with Silverlight—whether you're a designer or programmer.

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Create Web 2.0 applications from the inside out

Create rich, cross-platform, interactive Web applications with Microsoft's new Silverlight and this essential guide. Designers will discover how to add animation, audio, video, and other high-impact effects. Programmers will cover Visual Studio®, .NET, and other programming tools, and work with Silverlight's presentation, commu-nications, and data frameworks. Packed with techniques, tips, and a 16-page color insert of striking examples, this is the book you need to succeed with Silverlight.

• Make the most of Silverlight—whether you're a designer or programmer

• Get up to speed on the architecture, frameworks, and plug-in

• Create custom buttons, scroll bars, and menus with XAML tools and brushes

• Use the Expression Suite to create stunning user interfaces with media and animations

• Encode metadata, add scripts to video, and learn smart media tricks

• Write code with C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript®, Python®, and other DLR languages

• Implement sockets, parse XML data, and use LINQ to query SQL databases

About the Author

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience developing products and services for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and NetWare. He is the author of several books on topics including large network management, Web frameworks, and the Python programming language.

Lisa DaNae Dayley has owned a media creation business for 14 years and written several books including Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 in a Snap and Photoshop CS3 Extended Video and 3D Bible.

Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470375000
• ISBN-13: 978-0470375006
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #760,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a bible, but still worth every penny paid, October 4, 2008

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Techie Evan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silverlight 2 Bible (Paperback)

This book covers a lot of ground. The authors successfully used concise code examples to explain many concepts and show off many of Silverlight 2.0 capabilities. By the time you're done reading through this book, you would have learned not just basic stuff such as how to create, style, customize, and animate different kinds of Silverlight user interface controls, but also how to: build Silverlight-enhanced ASP.Net applications, add metadata to video files and access them programmatically, divide up your application to support fast initial download retrieving additional xaml or content only when needed, fire off background worker threads to keep your application responsive, access remote services via WebClient, HttpWebRequest/Response or plain old TCP sockets, and work with XML and SQL Data Sources via LINQ. The code samples were constructed with Silverlight 2 Beta 1, but I didn't find a download link. Overall, I think this book is very well written and you will learn a lot from it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, November 16, 2008

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This review is from: Silverlight 2 Bible (Paperback)

Very helpful. Index leads me to where I want to be. Good even for a beginner in WPF and Silverlight 2.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great place to start, January 5, 2009

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JP - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silverlight 2 Bible (Kindle Edition)

Before picking up this book, I had little idea the power that Silverlight has. I had heard it referred to as "flash killer" but that was about it.

Brad does a great job at presenting the building blocks of Silverlight in a straightforward readable way, that makes sense. I was able to go through the examples without any problem, and by the time I finished the book felt like I had a good grip on the subject matter.

This book was well written, and gave me a better understanding of the subject, what how it works, and what the possibilities are by using Silverlight.