Book Reviews

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

joshipooja82 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:55:20 GMT

Professional Silverlight 2 For Asp. Net Developers is the best book i read about .net. Its very helpful me in my learning about .net too. :) If you have more suggestion pls suggest me. Thanks

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

micoraweb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:28:14 GMT

A list of all Silverlight books with customer reviews, book table of contents, new and future releases, etc..
Best selling books, book selection by publisher (MsPress, Manning, Wrox, Apress, O'reilly)

Can be found here: http://www.silverlightbooks.net. (all books are instantly available for purchase via Amazon.com)

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

jimminatel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:29:12 GMT

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
2 XAML Basics
3 Silverlight Architectural Tour
4 Silverlight Developers Toolbox
5 Introducing the Controls
6 Working with Text
7 Laying out your Views
8 Styling your App and Dealing with Resources
9 Using Graphics and Visuals
10 Making it Richer with Media
11 Using the Services
12 Understanding Application Structure
13 First Things First - Handling Cross-Cutting Concerns
14 Dealing With Data
15 Designing and Styling the User Interface
16 Making the Application Come Alive

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

yassir.2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:50:24 GMT

ash143gupta:

Thanks Yassir for your reply i have downloaded the videos from silverlight.net but most of them are from silverlight 1.0 , but its ok

Thanks anyways.

chose How do i with silverlight 2.0 and silverlight presentations at mix 2008

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

ash143gupta — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:21:52 GMT

Thanks Yassir for your reply i have downloaded the videos from silverlight.net but most of them are from silverlight 1.0 , but its ok

Thanks anyways.

Re: Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

yassir.2 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:17:59 GMT

well i m not sure that u will find what u looking for ( i'm still waiting for a book "Programming Silverlight " by Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty)

anyway there are lot of resources here

Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta

ash143gupta — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:17:50 GMT

Hi can anyone suggest me the best book in which we use .net to program with silverlight not java script and this book should also tell how to integrate silverlight in my current website.