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Best books for Silverlight 2.0 beta RRS feed

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  • User1968999875 posted

    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. 

    Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:17 PM

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  • User-514194766 posted

    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

    • Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM
    Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:50 PM
  • User152549106 posted

    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

    • Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM
    Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:29 PM

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  • User-514194766 posted

    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

    Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:17 PM
  • User1968999875 posted

    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. 

    Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:21 AM
  • User-514194766 posted

    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

    • Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM
    Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:50 PM
  • User152549106 posted

    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

    • Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM
    Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:29 PM
  • User1207149749 posted

    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)

    Monday, September 22, 2008 10:28 PM
  • User-208016111 posted

    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

    Friday, June 26, 2009 7:55 AM