Books



  • 0 comments  /  author  Shannon Horn  /  released on  Apr 03, 2009
    Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 A Beginner's Guide

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    Essential Skills Made Easy!
    This hands-on guide prepares software developers to create next-generation Web and Windows applications using Microsoft Silverlight--the new technology that extends the .NET Framework to the client. The book covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite technologies. You will learn to use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight applications, and implement security.

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  • 1 comments  /  author  Bill Reiss / Dave Campbell  /  released on  Feb 01, 2009
    Hello! Silverlight 2

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    Microsoft Silverlight 2 makes it easy to introduce a rich, new dimension to your web applications. Silverlight is a powerful tool, but you can get a lot out of it by building on what you already know. After you add a few new techniques to your toolbox, you'll be able to create eye-catching animations, slick visual transitions, friendlier user interfaces, and even rounded corners to your windows!

    Hello! Silverlight 2 is a fast-paced, entertaining introduction to Silverlight. Authors Bill Reiss and Dave Campbell guide you hands-on from your first Hello World example through the techniques you'll use to add life to your web applications.

  • 0 comments  /  author  Alexandra Young  /  released on  Jan 27, 2009
    Professional Expression Blend 3.0 : with Silverlight

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    Professional Expression Blend 3.0: with Silverlight shows developers how to use the 3.0 release of Microsoft Expression Blend to build rich interactive Silverlight and other applications. The initial chapter introduces readers to the basic architecture and features of Expression Blend 3.0 and the advancements in design and development that it achieves. The concepts are stated in terms that Microsoft .NET application developers will understand, and include references to previously known concepts within development models such as methods, events, triggers etc..

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  • 0 comments  /  author  J. Ambrose Little / Jason Beres / Grant Hinkson / Devin Rader / Joe Croney  /  released on  Jan 09, 2009
    Silverlight 2.0 Programmer's Reference

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    Silverlight 2 Programmers Reference introduces developers to the second release of Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, showing them how to create powerful Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs).  The book focuses not only on the capabilities provided by the Silverlight 2 platform, but introduce them to the languages, tools and techniques used to build applications on the platform.  

    This book will consist of an introductory-level tutorial followed by reference material.   The tutorial itself consists of 4 parts.

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  • 0 comments  /  author  Steven A. Smith, R. Craig Palenshus, C. Brendan Enrick  /  released on  Jan 09, 2009
    Silverlight 2 Web Development: Problem-Design- Solution

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    * As Microsoft's solution for building rich, interactive applications, Silverlight is gaining rapid popularity among ASP.NET developers
    * This book shows how to enhance Web applications with Silverlight 1.1 via a tutorial that walks readers through each stage of application development
    * The author team uses the extremely popular TheBeerHouse application to present readers with a problem, a design, and the solution, with the end result being a real-world, working application that demonstrates the graphics, animation, audio, and video capabilities of Silverlight 1.1

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  • 0 comments  /  author  Jonathan Swift / Salvador Alvarez Patuel / Chris Barker / Dan Wahlin  /  released on  Jan 01, 2009
    Silverlight 2.0 for ASP.NET Developers

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    Web developers turn to Microsoft's Silverlight to build rich, interactive Web applications with animation, graphics, audio, and video; ASP.NET developers in particular discover that they can build more richly interactive applications than they can with ASP.NET alone. This book brings ASP.NET developers up-to-speed on the latest Silverlight 2.0 features and functions, from the fundamentals to advanced topics; the information is geared to ASP.NET developers, making it immediately useful to them.

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  • 0 comments  /  author  Robert Reinhardt  /  released on  Dec 27, 2008
    Microsoft Expression Blend

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    This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create streamlined, innovative and just plain beautiful applications with Microsoft's new application development tool . Design expert and author Robert Reinhardt takes readers step-by-step through the features and tools, and shows them how they can use Microsoft Expression Blend to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces with a rich design environment that combines multiple media elements including vectors, pixel images, 3D content, video and audio, high quality text, and animation. Whether learning the application from start or looking for specific task-based answers, Microsoft Expression Blend for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, provides designers and application developers with exactly the information they need.

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  • 0 comments  /  author  Robert Lair  /  released on  Dec 22, 2008
    Beginning Silverlight 2: From Novice to Professional

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    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.

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  • 0 comments  /  author  Mike Meyers / Chris Andrade  /  released on  Dec 22, 2008
    Professional Silverlight 2.0

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    * Experienced Web developers will benefit from this book, which explores using Microsoft's Silverlight 1.1 to build rich, interactive applications that feature animation, graphics, audio, and video
    * The authors provide a detailed set of examples that shows how to use Silverlight in a practical, real-world environment
    * Featured examples build upon one another as the reader gradually masters Silverlight's feature set
    * Includes extensive coverage of Expression Blend
    * Readers can expect to finish the book having acquired a solid understanding of how to develop rich interactive Web sites and applications using all of the capabilities of Silverlight 1.1

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  • 0 comments  /  author  David Kelley  /  released on  Dec 15, 2008
    Hacking Silverlight 2

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    Silverlight 2, Microsoft's new web framework for developing rich internet applications, brings the developer and the designer together. This cross-browser, web-oriented subset of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plugs into the browser and provides an easy-to-use toolkit for building rich internet applications in JavaScript or any .NET language such as C# or VB. When coupled with designer-friendly graphics tools like Microsoft Expression Blend, designers, web developers, bloggers, and CSS/HTML beginners can all take advantage of Silverlight's comprehensive platform.

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