Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) [Paperback]

Matthew MacDonald (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599497 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599495 | Publication Date: December 4, 2008 | Edition: 1

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in like Flash that delivers rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports a number of different programming languages and techniques (making it cross-platform) and all major browsers (cross-browser support). There is lots of interest in Microsoft’s Flash killer and several conferences have seen heavy support for the tech.

There is little published information on this on the market now and we will be one of, if not the, first to market with info on Silverlight. This book will leverage our existing success in the ASP.NET market to target developers interested in Silverlight from the development and .NET perspective, not just the designer. It’s a core angle into a hot topic supported by our brand history.

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About the Author

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599497
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599495
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #762,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to [e-mail].

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most exhaustive and accurate coverage on the Subject, November 30, 2008

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This review is from: Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

This book is very well organized and covers the essential silverlight subjects in depth. The color content makes a big difference for the ease of reading. The most extensive coverage of Silverlight capabilities from controls, animation, networking, databinding, isolated storage, multithreading and more... This book contains all you need to develop full featured applications in Silverlight.
It is the best book I have read on Silverlight 2 (and I've read 4 so far). Simple, I made it the recommended textbook for the silverlight class I am teaching at UCSD this winter.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best out there to this date, December 2, 2008

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This review is from: Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

I have had an opportunity to read a number of Silverlight 2 books that have come out on the market in the last few months. However this one is by far the best book on the subject going into depth on topics and covering ground that was completely ignored by other books. It is easy to read and I have already learned a number of things that I could make work at first but didn't know exactly what was happening under the covers. Highly recommend this book to anyone planning to learn more about silverlight 2.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book!, December 12, 2008

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This review is from: Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)

I own several books written by this author and enjoy each one of them.
Most authors have great knowledge about topics they are writing about. Not that many have good ability to explain what they know. Mathew has a great talent of explaining things without going overboard, but still noticing all little "gotchas" that can make your life miserable.
I bought this book among several others after long time of working with Silverlight using Web as information source. This book is way above the rest of them. Despite being familiar with most of the material, I still enjoyed the book very much and picked thing or two that I was not aware of.
The layout is great, the pace is good, there are tons of illustrations and having text printed in color makes it a breeze to go through code samples - you feel like you are in a Visual Studio - your brain will automatically digest the code - with comments, attributes, qualifiers, etc.