作者：Chad Campbell, John Stockton
出版日期：October 28, 2008
出版社：Manning Publications
页数：425
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1933988428 ISBN-13: 978-1933988429
文件格式：CHM


Product Description
Microsoft describes Silverlight as a “cross-browser, cross-platformplug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based mediaexperiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.” That’s areally boring description for a really exciting new technology. Anyonewho has looked at the demos and gotten a taste of what Silverlight cando knows that Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich webinterface technology for Microsoft developers.With Silverlight 2, developers can use JavaScript, VB, C#, Python,and Ruby to build user-friendly, interactive, and visually-dazzling webapplications that work in most major browsers.
Silverlight 2 in Action covers Silverlight 2, a far more robustimplementation of Silverlight than the Silverlight 1 release thatsupports only JavaScript. The much-anticipated 2 release adds powerfulnew features along with the ability to code in multiple languages andintegrate your work with Visual Studio and the new Expression suite oftools.
This book delivers real-world examples and in-depth walkthroughs tohelp you confidently enhance your web applications using Silverlight 2.
Silverlight 2 in Action devotes extensive coverage to flexiblelayout components, the extensible control model, the communicationframework, and the data-binding features “all cornerstones of softwaredevelopment. Author and Microsoft MVP Chad Campbell also describes richmedia and vivid graphical and animation features. The final chaptersinclude a variety of Silverlight deployment scenarios.
In addition to the fundamentals of Silverlight, you’ll be introducedto architectural components such as the Silverlight object model. Thebook addresses the developer/designer collaboration model Silverlightenables, showing the developer how to include the designer effectivelyin the project workflow. This model is illustrated throughout theexamples.
For ongoing reader support, the author will maintain a dedicatedbook-support website providing up-to-the-minute working examples,complete with source code, all in Silverlight.
About the Author
Chad Campbell is a Microsoft MVP and solutions architect. He has beendeveloping enterprise-level web applications with a wide variety oftechnologies since 1999. Beginning with the initial public release ofwhat would become Silverlight in 2006, Chad hit the ground running andhas not looked back. He holds MCSD and MCTS certifications. Inaddition, Chad has a BS degree from Purdue University where he focusedhis studies on computer science and minored in psychology.
John Stockton has been developing advanced web applications usingMicrosoft technologies for fortune 500 companies and governmentagencies for the last decade. He is very active in the local communityby speaking at and organizing events and is also an active member ofthe online Silverlight community. In his free time John enjoys modelrailroading, woodworking, being active outdoors and playing with histwo year old son.