Master Microsoft's New
Cross-Platform Plug-in for
Rich Internet Applications
Sebastopol,
CA—Now you can design
rich Internet applications (RIAs)
for the Web using
Silverlight 2, Microsoft's
second release of the
Silverlight platform. The
biggest change from
Silverlight 1.0 is the
inclusion of a compact
version of the .NET
Framework, complete with the
.NET Framework 3.0 Common
Language Runtime. By adding
.NET to Silverlight,
Microsoft makes it easy for
.NET developers to reuse
their existing programming
skills collaborate with
designers, and quickly
create rich applications for
the web. Whether Silverlight
2 turns out to be a "Flash
killer" remains to be seen,
but it certainly provides
developers with an
attractive alternative.
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In
Essential
Silverlight 2
Up-to-Date
(O'Reilly, US
$34.99), author
Christian Wenz shows
you how to take
advantage of this
new cross-browser
plug-in with tools
for animation,
vector graphics, and
video playback, as
well as new .NET
support for web
services,
networking, and LINQ
(language integrated
query). This guide
gives you complete
step-by-step
instructions for
using everything
Silverlight has to
offer, along with:
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Clever ways to
create
interactive UIs
that are more
robust and
easier to debug
and test than
what you can
achieve on other
platforms
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Scores of tested
JavaScript and
C# code examples
that you can
reuse in your
own applications
-
Expert guidance
from an author
who understands
RIA
technologies,
including
ASP.NET, Flash,
PHP, and
JavaScript
ISBN:
9780596519988, 212
pages,
$34.99 USD, £21.99
GBP |
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Christian Wenz is an
author, trainer, and
consultant with focus on web
technologies and web
security. He is Microsoft
MVP for ASP/ASP.NET.
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Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
Christian Wenz
ISBN: 9780596519988, 212
pages,
$34.99 USD, £21.99 GBP
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