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