Introducing Microsoft® Silverlight(TM) 1.0

by Laurence Moroney

Moroney, a software developer for Microsoft, provides this tutorial on the Silverlight plug-in for fellow web developers and programmers. Plenty of JavaScript and XAML code samples are listed which enable users to enhance the interface between interactive applications, including touchscreen technologies. A section of this manual is devoted to enabling audio and video playback, including streaming video and progressive downloads. Additional JavaScript and XAML codes are available on the companion website as well.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2007

About the author

Laurence Moroney is the author of more books than he’s prepared to admit. After several best selling programming books, his first Young Adult novel “The Fourth World” became a #1 book on Amazon Kindle, spawned two sequels “The Million Year Journey” and “The Legend of the Locust”, and is currently being shopped around studios for a potential movie. “Space Cadets” is his latest, a cutting edge science fiction novel, based on real science that starts a new series charting out humanity’s course to the stars. He’s presently working on the sequel “The Quiet World”, which he hopes to finish in 2015. For his day job, Laurence works as a Developer Advocate for Google, where he is constantly counting his blessings for being part of the best workplace in the world…