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Hacking Silverlight 2 David James Kelley MEAP Release: March 2008 Softbound print: January 2009 (est.) | 525 pages ISBN: 1933988576 |
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DESCRIPTION
Cheering erupts from the crowd, and there is much rejoicing. We did what would normally take six months in eight days--with a team learning from scratch. Silverlight made the impossibly complex (and sexy!) user interface possible. For designers and developers willing to work together, Silverlight is a godsend.
Silverlight 2, Microsoft's new web framework for developing rich internet applications, brings the developer and the designer together. This cross-browser, web-oriented subset of Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation plugs into the browser and provides an easy-to-use toolkit for building rich internet applications in JavaScript or any .NET language such as C# or VB. When coupled with designer-friendly graphics tools like Microsoft Expression Blend, designers, web developers, bloggers, and CSS/HTML beginners can all take advantage of Silverlight's comprehensive platform.
Hacking Silverlight 2 is an example-rich Silverlight tutorial that explores the developer/designer workflow key to any successful internet application. This book teaches you in small steps supported by larger lab examples. After you master the basics, you'll learn to work on projects in Visual Studio and Expression Blend at the same time, how to use source control to manage your projects, how to deploy applications successfully, and more.
As part of an elite group hand-picked by Microsoft to test early Silverlight builds and develop sample applications, author David Kelley has hundreds of hours of production-level Silverlight experience. This book guides the reader through a running case study of an actual, large-scale Silverlight project created by the author. You'll also learn to create gadgets and mashups using cutting-edge environments like Volta and Popfly. Along the way, you'll pick up unique tips and best practices based on the author's unusually deep experience with Silverlight 2.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Create applications using XAML and Expression Blend
- Master eventing and logic
- Learn powerful animation techniques
- Successfully manage the developer/designer workflow
- Build reusable Silverlight controls
About the Author
David James Kelley is a Senior Software Architect at IdentityMine. For over 10 years David has focused on distributed application design and emerging Microsoft technologies on the web. He helped design and build large systems for Microsoft, Onyx Software, Saltmine, Giordanous Group, and IdentityMine and has specialized in applying leading-edge technology to real-world business problems. David built many of the core Popfly blocks in Silverlight and was part of the team that created the Emmy Award site for Entertainment Tonight--one of the first large-scale commercial Silverlight applications.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Hacking Silverlight 2 enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Forum
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