Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008

by Matthew MacDonald

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. With four–color graphics and screenshots throughout , Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial, written from professional developer to professional developer. You’ll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you’re most productive in, no matter what the target platform. .NET developers encountering Silverlight for the first time. No prior knowledge of WPF or ASP.NET is assumed.

Genres: Programming

639 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2008

About the author

Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with well over a dozen books to his name. He's particularly known for his books about building websites, which include a do-it-from-scratch tutorial (Creating a Website: The Missing Manual), a look at cutting-edge HTML5 (HTML5: The Missing Manual), and a WordPress primer (WordPress: The Missing Manual). He's also written a series of books about programming on and off the Web with .NET, teaches programming at Ryerson University, and is a three-time Microsoft MVP.

Reviews

[Benjamin Haag]

I'm only partway through at this point, but thus far I am finding it to be a thorough and valuable introduction to Silverlight, which I am learning at present after working with ASP.NET and C# for several years.

The color-printed code samples and illustrations are also quite helpful and welcome, for the same reasons that thay are in Visual Studio.

[Kirankumar760]

i learn silver light