Silverlight 2 Recipes

This book is brought to the market immediately surrounding the actual Silverlight 1.1 RTM to target developers interested in practical, ready-to-use code pieces. Readers will enjoy the "cut-and-paste" ready solutions that give lots of bang for their buck.

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in like Flash that delivers rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports a number of different programming languages and techniques (making it cross-platform) and all major browsers (cross-browser support). This book will leverage our existing success in the ASP.NET market and our investment in several Silverlight 1.1 titles. These titles were brought to market immediately surrounding the actual Silverlight 1.1 RTM to target developers interested in practical, ready-to-use code pieces. Readers enjoy these "cut-and-paste" ready solutions that give them lots of bang for their buck. Additionally, there doesn't appear to be a competitive recipe-style book announced as of this writing.

We are at the forefront of the nascent curve for Silverlight as a technology, and in particular the 1.1 version that represents the pinnacle of development thus far Silverlight appeals to users not only of Windows, but other OSes and browser platforms as well, increasing demand for a technology that is already hugely anticipated We are entering the market with expert Microsoft-employed authors at the bleeding edge, and our practical cut-and-paste format provides immediate and tangible value to the customer

Autorentext
Jit Ghosh is an industry architect with the Developer Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft, working on digital media solutions. Jit has over 16 years of solutions architecture and software engineering experience with the last few years focused on the broadcast, digital content publishing and advertising space. You can read more about Jit's current work at http://blogs.msdn.com/jitghosh.

Inhalt
A Quick Tour of Silverlight 2 Development.- Application Design and Programming Model.- Developing User Experiences.- Data Binding.- Controls.- Browser Integration.- Networking and Web Service Integration.- Integrating Rich Media.