Download or read book Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date written by Christian Wenz and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, Microsoft's hot runtime application. Available only as an ebook, this concise, easy-to-understand introduction provides complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight 2 has to offer, including tools for animation, vector graphics, video playback, .NET support for web services and networking, as well as LINQ, Microsoft's native data querying tool. Essential Silverlight 2 helps you take advantage of Microsoft's cross-browser plug-in with: Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust and easier to debug and test than what you can achieve on other platforms Scores of tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in your own applications Expert guidance from an author who understands RIA technologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScript Ready to deliver a more complete Web experience? Essential Silverlight 2 offers a world of possibilities.
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Download or read book Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials written by Matthew MacDonald and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.
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