Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2

by Laurence Moroney

Get a head start with Silverlight 2—the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for rich interactive applications and the next-generation user experience.Featuring advance insights from inside the Microsoft Silverlight team, this book delivers the practical, approachable guidance and code to inspire your next solutions, and offers pointers to C# and XAML code samples on the Web.Discover how to: Create your first simple sites and browser-hosted applications Use XAML to render, scale, and animate graphics on-screen Exploit Microsoft .NET runtime and Visual Studio language support Explore the full suite of controls—build and extend your own Experiment with media, ink, and Deep Zoom capabilities Create connected applications Put dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python to work Deliver skinned media content Manage Silverlight applications from ASP.NET–based servers

Genres: Technical

352 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2008

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…