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Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials View Larger Image | Matthew MacDonald
Apress, Paperback, Published August 2008, 176 pages, ISBN 1430215828 | List Price: $19.99
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Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from
the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rules–changing, groundbreaking
technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the
browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in
non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms
(like Mac OS X).
Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook
to make sense of it.
What you’ll learn
This 176 page book is meant to give you a sense of what you, as a programmer,
can expect from Silverlight in terms of what the user is going to see. The emphasis
here is on understanding what Silverlight has to offer. While there is some
code given, that is not the point of the book. The point is to be ably to quickly
understand what functionality is available to you, what options you might have
without getting bogged down in much code.
Who is this book for?
We assume that you are a programmer and that you have an understanding of XAML.
However, if you do ignore the code that exists in the book, then any lay person
or even an administrator, can come to grips with the visual element of Silverlight.
About the Author
Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion
for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such
as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's
the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces
in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET
Distributed Applications. In a dimly remembered past life, he studied English
literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail to him with praise, condemnation,
and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.
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