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Silverlight 1.0 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Devin Rader, Jason Beres, J. Ambrose Little, Grant Hinkson
Publisher: Wrox
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Sales Rank: 406548
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0470228407
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780470228401
ASIN: 0470228407
Publication Date: October 29, 2007
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Product Description
Silverlight--the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista--is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight.
In these color-filled pages, a crack team of Wrox experts gives you a comprehensive introduction to Silverlight. You'll see the vivid graphics and video images you can achieve. You will learn to use the component languages, tools, and techniques of Silverlight to create applications that enhance the user experience. You'll also discover how to leverage existing technologies, such as JavaScript(r), XAML, ASP.NET, and AJAX, and incorporate them with development tools like Visual Studio(r), Expression(r) Encoder, and Expression Blend. Soon you'll be building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation.
What you will learn from this book
* Easy ways to incorporate graphics, animation, audio, and video into Internet applications
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Methods for creating rich media apps that run on Windows(r) and Mac(r), as well as in Internet Explorer, Firefox(r), and Safari
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How to write standard JavaScript within an HTML page to manipulate and program against any XAML DOM element, storyline animation, or video
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Ways to integrate Silverlight within existing HTML pages, web sites, and ASP.NET applications
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How to handle data access in Silverlight applications using AJAX
Who this book is for
This book is for professional web developers who want to take advantage of Silverlight's capabilities to create rich interactive applications.
"[This book] makes a great companion for anyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of Silverlight without wading through the reference material in the SDK. If you're looking for a trustworthy guide to show you how Silverlight can light up your web applications, you'll find this book a great starting point."
--Tim Sneath, Group Manager for Client Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Corporation
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Great intro to Silverlight 1.0 June 26, 2008
Being a novice programmer, I found Silverlight 1.0 a great overview of the functionality of Silverlight. I especially liked the code details and visual examples the authors used to illustrate key features using multiple methods from a basic text editor to the Expression Blend application as well as Visual Studio. I'm looking forward to working through the examples, the Video Player case study looks interesting.
Great Silverlight Reference January 18, 2008
'Silverlight 1.0' is one of the new generation of Wrox books (the red ones) that sport full color and a great new layout. This update to the Wrox line has been long coming and what a difference it makes! With the reduced costs of color content it's completely unacceptable for any of the big publishing houses to release any books that need color without it and I am glad Wrox put up the extra money to do things right!! Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to Adobe (Macromedia) Flash and if you have ever seen some of the capabilities of Silverlight you will know that this is an important technology that is around to stay! Heavily based off of XAML and open source standards, Microsoft has really done things right with this new technology and this is a great book to get your feet wet and start learning!!
If you are a Silverlight developer and want to start creating great Silverlight applications, pick up this book and you will be well on your way. Written well in a beautiful new package, this is a great introduction to get up and running TO-DAY!!
**** RECOMMENDED
 This is a book that will help you to get up at speed with this fantastic new technology from Microsoft November 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book that will help you to get up at speed with this fantastic new technology from Microsoft, this book gives you all the information you need to start developing some great Silverlight apps.
I really appreciate the fact that has all the pictures and code in color, it helps a lot to understand, also I appreciate the fact that the authors didn't went so deep in the HTML/JavaScript details, instead they went straight to the core of Silverlight and how to use it.
I have to say that I got the book, and I couldn't stop to read. This is one of those books that you will like to have on your side has a reference when you are working on any Silverlight project.
After this book I gain more interest for the XAML, WPF that Microsoft has been doing with the new version of .NET framework ( .NET 3.5).
Great way to start with Silverlight November 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK for those who are wanting to start with Silverlight but have found the way that Silverlight.net displays information as too confusing, this book is for you. Its a great starter book. I waited and waited for it and while its not complete by any means (it would be hard to do that with Silverlight being in its infancy), it gives you all the information you need to start developing some great Silverlight apps.
My only complaint is that the price-point does not match the book. I expected a much thicker volume at this price. Thankfully purchasing from Amazon gives you a much cheaper price.
strong support of open standards October 26, 2007
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
Out of Microsoft comes this latest offering, for managing web pages. One of its strengths is to be able to make cross-browser compatible pages. Seems to me that 10 years ago, the browser wars were in full rage, and this was a big issue. But while those browsers have been supplanted by the current IE and sundry open source competitors, there are still incompatibilities. So Silverlight helps here.
Another strength of Silverlight is its emphasis on using XAML. The use of XML-style files as the "database" (so to speak), also opens Silverlight for functioning in a fairly open environment. Where other of your apps can read/write to those XAML files. Good to see that Microsoft hasn't gone the earlier route of its proprietary binary data format for its Office suite. From the get go, Silverlight uses XML.
Yet another merit is how the Silverlight developers made the pragmatic decision to support JavaScript. No mention in this book of the (unlamented?) JScript. Which, if you recall, is Microsoft's proprietary take on JavaScript. But the web marketplace strongly favours JavaScript. (I would have fully expected Silverlight to go with JScript.)
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