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Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

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Matt has done great job in past writing good books but this is a failure.

This book says it has 240 pages but author and publisher have tried to trick you. At least tricked me. Font size in book is 16 that makes 30 pages 240. Book is more like introductory chapters on Sllverlight with no code. You probably can get better documents on MSDN. I would avoid this book.

Last few chapters are just one or two pages with MSDN classes copied.

This book is simply the unfinished version of "Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008", or the cut down version.
Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 9 of "Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008" is this book, but with less explanation.
I mean these two books are completely the same book, except this book is only the draft version of the other.

For example, The first half of Chapter 3 of this book and the first half of the other book is completely the same.
However, in this book, the other half really lacks the description and examples. For example, it mentions GridSplitter, but is unfinished with any useful explanation. You kind-a-wonder what the hack!!!
Then, you look at the the other book, all the explanations are there.

I don't understand how this kind of book can ever exists.

I'm not sure if this is the author or the publisher, but I'm not only disappointed, but angry!!!

Don't buy this book, but I recomend "Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008"