Silverlight 4

Exclusive to SilverlightShow community: order this book with 20% discount! Enter code SShow20Net at checkout.

With Silverlight becoming a growing Line-Of-Business platform, it is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. The new book 'Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook' by Microsoft Regional Director for Belgium Gill Cleeren and the http://blog.kevindockx.com/ introduces the concepts needed to create data-rich business applications—from the creation of a Silverlight application, to displaying data in the Silverlight application and upgrading your existing applications to use Silverlight.

Buy from:

Buy from:

Buy from:

Introducing Silverlight 4 brings you up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. The book builds off your understanding of the basics of .NET coding and WPF, allowing your journey to Silverlight 4 proficiency to be as quick and painless as possible. The text highlights where coding techniques are similar to other, more established areas of the .NET framework. Likewise, when your existing coding habits lead you to a syntax or conceptual ’gotcha,’ the text points that out, too.

This book provides you with fast-track coverage of all the most important elements of the Silverlight 4 technology ranging from XAML to standard controls, from dealing with media to networking, from testing to deployment. It also reveals the new features introduced with Silverlight 4 and offers guidance on how to best utilize them. The book concludes with a pair of fully worked sample applications for you to follow through, because nothing reinforces your understanding of how concepts fit together as much as looking at finished code.

Buy from: