Silverlight 1.0

by J. Ambrose Little, Devin Rader, Grant Hinkson, et al.

Silverlight--the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista--is the web developer's choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470228407
• ISBN13: 9780470228401
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great intro to Silverlight 1.0

Being a novice programmer, I found Silverlight 1.0 a great overview of the functionality of Silverlight. I especially liked the code details and visual examples the authors used to illustrate key features using multiple methods from a basic text editor to the Expression Blend application as well as Visual Studio. I'm looking forward to working through the examples, the Video Player case study looks interesting.

Great Silverlight Reference

'Silverlight 1.0' is one of the new generation of Wrox books (the red ones) that sport full color and a great new layout. This update to the Wrox line has been long coming and what a difference it makes! With the reduced costs of color content it's completely unacceptable for any of the big publishing houses to release any books that need color without it and I am glad Wrox put up the extra money to do things right!! Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to Adobe (Macromedia) Flash and if you have ever seen some of the capabilities of Silverlight you will know that this is an important technology that is around to stay! Heavily based off of XAML and open source standards, Microsoft has really done things right with this new technology and this is a great book to get your feet wet and start learning!! If you are a Silverlight developer and want to start creating great Silverlight applications, pick up this book and you will be well on your way. Written well in a beautiful new package, this is a great introduction to get up and running TO-DAY!! **** RECOMMENDED

This is a book that will help you to get up at speed with this fantastic new technology from Microso

This is a book that will help you to get up at speed with this fantastic new technology from Microsoft, this book gives you all the information you need to start developing some great Silverlight apps. I really appreciate the fact that has all the pictures and code in color, it helps a lot to understand, also I appreciate the fact that the authors didn't went so deep in the HTML/JavaScript details, instead they went straight to the core of Silverlight and how to use it. I have to say that I got the book, and I couldn't stop to read. This is one of those books that you will like to have on your side has a reference when you are working on any Silverlight project. After this book I gain more interest for the XAML, WPF that Microsoft has been doing with the new version of .NET framework ( .NET 3.5).

A very good introduction, but not recommended over Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed

There is nothing [reference-wise] in this book that is not in the Silverlight 1.0 SDK. However, it does provide more useful code samples and explanations, making it easier to get up to speed on Silverlight quickly. Three points I liked: 1. The authors did a good job of explaining the relationship among the various developer tools you can use to implement Silverlight apps (Visual Studio 2005 & 2008, Expression Blend, and plain 'ole Notepad). 2. Very little time is spent on JavaScript basics...they instead jump right into scripting to manipulate the Silverlight objects. 3. I initially dismissed the full-color code/screen shots as gimmicky--especially in the first chapter when someone got trigger-happy with almost five pages screen shots showing you nothing more than how to download Silverlight and the SDK--but beyond that, it was actually quite helpful. The color source code makes it exactly like Visual Studio, so you can immediately grab the key points. What would have made this book perfect is to show more best practices and lessons learned. A book that DOES have those extras--despite Silverlight's state of infancy--is Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed. I recommend that book over this Wrox counterpart if you are a developer. If you are in a non-developer role (account manager, sales, etc.), this Wrox book does a better job of conceptually explaining Silverlight, how to sell others on it, etc.