2009
Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008Authors:

• Matthew MacDonald
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ISBN: 978-1-4302-1602-5 (Print) 978-1-4302-1603-2  (Online)



MacDonald, Matthew

2009, 632 p.

A product of Apress

ISBN 978-1-4302-1602-5

  Currently out of stock.

About this book

• This will likely be the first VB-specific Silverlight 2 book produced. Since the Silverlight technology appeals to web developers we expect the VB audience to be larger than usual
•                                         We are entering the market with a proven author and an angle toward the developer that we have historically been successful with
•                                         Silverlight appeals to users not only of Windows, but other operating systems and browser platforms as well, increasing demand for a technology that is already hugely anticipated
  

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.
With four–color graphics and screenshots throughout, Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008 is the perfect reference: you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of Windows Presentation Foundation through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial written from professional developer to professional developer. You’ll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you’re most productive in–no matter what the target platform.

• Authors & Editors
  

Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator, and MCSD developer who has a passion for emerging technologies. He is a regular writer for developer journals such as Inside Visual Basic, ASPToday, and Hardcore Visual Studio .NET, and he's the author of several books about programming with .NET, including User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, The Book of VB .NET, and .NET Distributed Applications. In a dimly- remembered past life, he studied English literature and theoretical physics. Send e-mail with praise, condemnation, and everything in between, to p2p@prosetech.com.