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- Expression is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing and most exciting web development technologies to be released to date. It is a brand new technology so everyone will be starting from the same place – the beginning
- This book is being timed to coincide with the release of the full ‘1.1’ version of Silverlight that ties it into the .NET 3.5 Framework that is also being officially released in this month. It will demonstrate the full range of Silverlight’s capabilities and how it is linked into the .NET Framework
- The author, Bob Lair, has been following the technology’s release cycle since its early alpha and has been deeply involved in building commercial applications based on the 1.0 version of the software. He has written both books and articles in the past that have been well received
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
With the need for a richer user experience ever more in focus when creating web applications, Microsoft has released Silverlight, the new cross–browser, cross–platform plug–in that allows developers to create rich interactive applications for the Web.
Silverlight poses exciting new opportunities for creating visually impressive web applications, offering unparalleled response times and minimal bandwidth requirements. Key differences in the new design tools present developers with new challenges, but author Robert Lair of IBuySpy notoriety (the original ASP.NET application) shows you how to get a firm handle on Silverlight so you can start creating your own Silverlight web applications with exciting results.
Explore the best of the new tools and discover how they can benefit your own projects. Microsoft's Expression Design tool plays an important part in creating Silverlight assets, Microsoft Expression Blend is used to build user interaction for Silverlight elements, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 manages the interaction between designers and developers and provides the coding environment for the “nuts and bolts” basis of Silverlight development. Prepare to take a grand tour of all these new tools and explore the fundamentals of building good Silverlight applications from scratch. Once you've mastered the basics, you'll move on to a more in–depth discussion of some of the groundbreaking new features of the Silverlight technology and why they will change the way you build web sites of the future.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Silverlight 2
Book Subtitle: From Novice to Professional
Authors: Robert Lair
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0570-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Robert Lair 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-952-5Published: 25 December 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0570-8Published: 31 January 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 296
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems