Synopses & Reviews
Silverlight 2 is the most exciting Microsoft technology to come along since .NET, and this definitive tutorial is targeted straight at the programmer who wants to build rich, robust, real-world, client-side applications using managed code. Authors Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer are Microsoft's Silverlight Community Program Managers, putting them in a unique position to tell the story of this technology. In Programming Silverlight 2, they present a guided tour through every aspect of Silverlight 2, diving deep into the techniques and best practices you'll need to create exciting and reliable cross-browser, cross-platform, Rich Internet Applications. This book: Helps you find the best paths through the thicket of information and detail Explains not just how but why and when Illustrates each concept with simple, yet meaningful (and reusable) examples Talks as a developer to a developer; a stimulating technical conversation in which difficult questions are anticipated and answered Meets the needs of developers who work with large teams, small teams and who work alone; in various industries, and with varying levels of experience Liberty and Heuer have not only written the single best book on Silverlight 2, they continue their commitment in their work on Silverlight.net, with ongoing writing, videos, webcasts world-wide presentations, and much more. Whether you're a .NET developer or come from a different platform, this book will get you up to speed quickly on this new and immensely important technology.
Synopsis
Written by best-selling O'Reilly author Jesse Liberty and fellow Silverlight Program Manager Tim Heuer, Programming Silverlight 2 teaches developers all they need to know to build rich internet applications (RIA) that can run in any browser on Windows or Macs OS with Microsoft's new Silverlight platform. This definitive tutorial guides the reader through every aspect of building rich, interactive applications delivered cross-browser and cross platform using Microsoft's new Silverlight technology. Silverlight allows developers to harness the power of rich user controls found in Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Vista, but deliver it to any browser on any supported operating system. Programming Silverlight begins with a full exploration of XAML and the Silverlight Foundation libraries that support the creation of rich interactive applications. This book is targeted squarely at applications developers who are building cutting edge, high profile, commercial applications, and need a no-nonsense in-the-trenches tutorial to this new and high-demand technology, but who do not need a regurgitation of the documentation.
About the Author
Jesse Liberty, Microsoft .NET MVP, is the best-selling author of O'Reilly Media's "Programming ASP.NET", "Programming C#", "Programming Visual Basic 2005" and over a dozen other books on web and object-oriented programming. He is president of Liberty Associates, Inc. where he provides contract programming, consulting and on-site training in .NET. Jesse is a frequent contributor to O'Reilly Network web sites as well as many industry publications and has spoken at numerous industry events. He is a former Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank.