Silverlight 3: Programmer's Reference by J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Devin Rader, Grant Hinkson, Joe Croney

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  • Pub. Date: August 2009
  • 608pp
  • Sales Rank: 49,828

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    • Pub. Date: August 2009
    • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 608pp
    • Sales Rank: 49,828

    Synopsis

    This valuable reference—in full color—explains the major new release of Silverlight 3 which is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of powerful Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a highly-seasoned team of developers and designers, this book guides you through the languages, tools, and techniques that are used to build applications on the Silverlight 3 platform (Build 40522). Each chapter provides a mini-tutorial on the respective topic, and the examples serve to both educate and inspire you. The information in this book is structured to help prepare you for the real-world challenges you may face when building applications on the Silverlight platform. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of how Silverlight applications are architected, developed, and designed.

    This book covers:

    · XAML basics

    · Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight Runtime and SDK

    Transforming text with render transforms

    · Using graphics, visuals and adding media for a richer user experience

    · Building application, making it come alive and responding to user activity

    · Setting up a control project and using a custom control in an application

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    Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference is of no value. It should be an Intro to Expression Blend, butby Anonymous

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    October 19, 2009: I was looking to tie Silverlight 3 into the Visual Studio 2008 Development Environment. It ignores AJAX and Visual Studio, and librally uses Expression Blend, which is apparently a interim step, until we get VS 2010. The examples provide in the text do not work, particularly with the changes that were made by MS in the transition from Silverlight 2 to 3.

    In my effort to get some of the code to work in Visual Studio 2008, I was reminded by one of the authors that they did not have to participate in the forum to answer questions.

    With all this disappointment, I felt that "I wuz robbed".

    Great book.by Dexterously

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    October 13, 2009: This was a great book. I learned a lot from it and its enough to get started and build applications that compete with flex and flash. It has great insight from start to end and its a great reference book. This book does a great job being enthusiastic about the techonology and it has a broad approach using different tools to deploy a solution.


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