Introducing Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2, Second Edition

By: Laurence Moroney

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Synopsis: Get a head start with Silverlight 2--the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for rich interactive applications and the next-generation user experience. Featuring advance insights from inside the Microsoft Silverlight team, this book delivers the practical, approachable guidance and code to inspire your next solutions, and offers pointers to C# and XAML code samples on the Web. Discover how to: Create your first simple sites and browser-hosted applications Use XAML to render, scale, and animate graphics on-screen Exploit Microsoft .NET runtime and Visual Studio language support Explore the full suite of controls--build and extend your own Experiment with media, ink, and Deep Zoom capabilities Create connected applications Put dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python to work Deliver skinned media content Manage Silverlight applications from ASP.NET-based servers