J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Grant Hinkson, Devin Rader, and Joe Croney are writing the Wrox book Silverlight 2 Programmer's Reference. It's available now in a wiki for $19.99 as they write it on the beta at:
http://silverlight2.wrox.com/
as part of the Wrox First program. Not only can you read the chapters as they write them for the beta, customers in the wiki will get the final version of the chapters for Silverlight 2 release in the wiki when the book is published. Here's the current working table of contents and chapters 3, 8, 13, 16 are available to wiki customers now, more chapters are being added as they are written. Customers can also comment on all the pages and make suggestions for improvements.
| 1 | Introducing Silverlight |
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| 2 | XAML Basics |
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| 3 | Silverlight Architectural Tour
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| 4 | Silverlight Developers Toolbox |
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| 5 | Introducing the Controls |
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| 6 | Working with Text |
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| 7 | Laying out your Views |
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| 8 | Styling your App and Dealing with Resources |
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| 9 | Using Graphics and Visuals |
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| 10 | Making it Richer with Media |
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| 11 | Using the Services |
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| 12 | Understanding Application Structure |
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| 13 | First Things First - Handling Cross-Cutting Concerns |
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| 14 | Dealing With Data |
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| 15 | Designing and Styling the User Interface |
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| 16 | Making the Application Come Alive |