作者：Christian Wenz
出版日期：April 29, 2008
出版社：O'Reilly
页数：212
ISBN：ISBN-10: 0596519982 ISBN-13: 978-0596519988
文件格式：CHM


Product Description
Now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web usingSilverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft’s hot new runtimeapplication — without waiting for the official release. That’s right.With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you not only get a concise,easy-to-understand introduction to Silverlight 2, but thorough coverageof the CTPs, betas, and RTM releases as they become available. Once youbuy this Up-to-Date edition, you’ll be able to download free PDFs ofall the revisions to Silverlight — pages that you can print and insertright into the book’s unique binder format. Pre-printed updates willalso be available for purchase. It combines the the speed of technologywith convenience of a book. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date,you learn to take advantage of Microsoft’s cross-browser Silverlightplug-in with tools for animation, vector graphics, and video playback,as well as new .NET support for web services, networking and LINQ(language integrated query). This guide gives you complete step-by-stepinstructions for using everything Silverlight has to offer, along with:Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust and easierto debug and test than what you can achieve on other platforms Scoresof tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in yourown applications Expert guidance from an author who understands RIAtechnologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScriptReady todeliver a more complete Web experience? Now there’s no reason to wait.Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date offers a whole new world ofpossibilities.About the Author
Christian Wenz is an author,trainer, and consultant. His main focus of working and writing is onweb technologies and security. Christian has written or co-written over50 books for various publishers. He works with both open source andclosed source web technologies. This leads to the unusual situationthat he has both been awarded a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and islisted in Zend’s Who is Who of PHP. He is also listed in Mozilla’scredits (about:credits) and is considered an expert in browser-agnosticJavaScript.
Apart from writing and working on web projects, Christian alsofrequently speaks at developer conferences around the globe that coverweb technologies. Among them are 2005’s Microsoft Tech Ed Europeconference (BOF session) and the 2005 Zend Conference.