Name of the Book : Microsoft Silverlight 3, A Beginner’s Guide
Author : Shannon Horn
Name of the Publisher : Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.
Price : Rs.375/- Pages : 265
Designed keeping beginners in mind, this guide creates rich interactive applications for the Web. With hands-on examples, it covers Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. The early chapters of the book introduce Silverlight and the path of technologies leading up to its development. It further progresses to illustrate networking and accessing data with Silverlight, finally discussing its usage in displaying graphics and media. This book is of great help when it comes to testing, debugging, deploying and securing applications. Each chapter of this book starts with a list of specific skills. These are covered and explained in detail in the later chapters. The reader will also come across a Q&A segment filled with bonus information and helpful tips given by experts, besides providing additional information related to the topics. Hands-on exercises prove to be equally beneficial to the reader in learning how to apply his/her skills.
After reading this tutorial, the beginner could also use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, develop dynamic, data-driven Silverlight applications, access data using XML and LINQ and create XAML and WCF services.
