Silverlight 2 Bible | 
 enlarge | Author: Brad Dayley
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 153487
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0470375000
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780470375006
ASIN: 0470375000
Publication Date: October 6, 2008
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Product Description
Silverlight 2 is a powerful Internet application and Microsoft's solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for rich internet applications. The Silverlight 2 Bible, will provide you with a strong foundation in Silverlight whereby you will quickly be able to create and deliver a variety of Silverlight applications. This book will show you exactly how to build everything from basic Silverlight-enabled web pages with graphics and video, to professional, Silverlight-enhanced ASP.NET applications that link to powerful back-end services. The Silverlight 2 Bible will discuss development tools, such as Visual Studio 2008, as well as design tools such as Expression Blend, Expression Encoder and Deep Zoom Composer, which Microsoft has positioned for designing state of the art UI in Silverlight applications.
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 Great Book November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very helpful. Index leads me to where I want to be. Good even for a beginner in WPF and Silverlight 2.
 Not a very good book... November 13, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a professional C# developer who has done complete full scale applications in C#. I was looking for a book which had accurate and complete information about Silverlight 2.0. This book is NOT it.
1) This book is not up to date with the actual released version of Silverlight 2.0, but rather the Beta. So some of the examples don't work, or are confusing as a result.
2) I'm working with one of the chapters now on making custom silverlight controls. It is basically written as a step-by-step recipe with zero insight into the WHYS of what you are doing (example DependencyProperties), which is pretty pointless. If I want to find code to just copy without understanding what I'm doing, that is all over the web. I buy a book with nice examples / tutorials so I can learn HOW things work.
Don't waste your money on this.
 Too broad, not enough depth...not for professionals October 31, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I agree with the first reviewer of this book in that this is not a bible. The book could have easily added another 500-700 pages of content. The book tries to cover too many topics never going into depth on any of them. You can get the same information on-line. I bought this book hoping there was sufficient content to build a half decent app. Usually that's what you get from the "Bible" series. I should have looked closer at the font size after looking at how many total pages.
It would have been nice to see a few full featured working silverlight sites with the book or at least on-line.
I would love to see the authors create a site to accompany the book that had some nice large size solutions that demo'd the topics.
If you are a professional developer avoid this book for now.
 Not exactly a bible, but still worth every penny paid October 5, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!
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