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by J. Ambrose Little (Author), Jason Beres (Author), Grant Hinkson (Author), Devin Rader (Author), Joe Croney (Author)
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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (28 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0470385405
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470385401
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm
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This valuable reference—in full color—explains the major new release of Silverlight 3 which is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of powerful Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a highly–seasoned team of developers and designers, this book guides you through the languages, tools, and techniques that are used to build applications on the Silverlight 3 platform (Build 40522). Each chapter provides a mini–tutorial on the respective topic, and the examples serve to both educate and inspire you. The information in this book is structured to help prepare you for the real–world challenges you may face when building applications on the Silverlight platform. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of how Silverlight applications are architected, developed, and designed.

This book covers:

· XAML basics

· Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight Runtime and SDK

Transforming text with render transforms

· Using graphics, visuals and adding media for a richer user experience

· Building application, making it come alive and responding to user activity

· Setting up a control project and using a custom control in an application



From the Back Cover

Silverlight 3 is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of rich interactive applications (RIAs) more achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a team of seasoned developers and designers, this full–color tutorial demonstrates exactly what Silverlight 3 offers for building RIAs that combine animation, graphics, audio, and video.

With a focus on the capabilities provided by the Silverlight 3platform (Build 40522), this book introduces you to the languages, tools, and techniques needed to build applications on the platform. You′ll begin with an overview of Silverlight and move on to topic–by–topic coverage of this new platform′s capabilities, including new APIs, objects, services, and concepts. Each chapter provides a mini–tutorial on each topic, and the examples serve to both educate and inspire you. The information in this book is structured to help prepare you for the real–world challenges you may face when building applications on the Silverlight platform.

With this resource, you′ll gain a thorough understanding of how Silverlight applications are architected, developed, and designed.

What you will learn from this book

  • Ways to create holistic Silverlight applications (not just multimedia glitz)

  • How to solve real–world problems you may face when building your Silverlight applications

  • Ways to use controls, work with text, lay out views, style applications, use graphics, work with audio, and more

  • The basics of using designer and developer tools with Silverlight (including Expression Blend and Visual Studio®)

  • How to use XAML in Silverlight for event handling

  • Transforming text with render transforms

Who this book is for

This book is for .NET developers who want to learn how to create practical Silverlight 3 applications.

Wrox Programmer′s References are designed to give the experienced developer straight facts on a new technology, without hype or unnecessary explanations. They deliver hard information with plenty of practical examples to help you apply new tools to your development projects today.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book if you have not done much silverlight, could be better in some places, 3 Sep 2009
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I read the Wrox Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers book about six months ago as my first in-depth introduction to the world of Silverlight, so was looking for a book that could get me up to speed quickly on the new features of Siverlight 3. Having read plenty of Wrox books in the past I looked for their latest and happily found Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmers Reference which looked like it could help me catch up with the latest release.

When the book arrived two things struck me immediately, one it was a bigger book that I was expecting (see more about this later) and two it was in FULL colour. Now you may be saying "full colour, so what?" but believe me, having all the code samples look exactly like they do in Visual Studio, and full colour screenshots of Blend make a massive difference. Every developer I have shown the book to has immediately been impressed by the change and I can only hope this is the future for all technical books.

The book is written by five authors, which to be honest is something I try and avoid if possible when choosing a book as there always seems to be some consistency issues. However, I can appreciate the world of Silverlight requires a lot of skills and finding one person who has all these would be a tough call. I was impressed, however, to see the authors are all developers at Infragistics and it's great to see such a high profile company committed to helping the developer community. I did notice a reasonable amount of what seems unnecessary repetition in different sections (for example two almost identical sections of Isolated Storage) but it's always good to have concepts reinforced in a book this big.

There are a few notable chapters in the book that try to widen the understanding of developers about the roles and processes involved in a typical Silverlight development team; especially how designers, developers and integrators work together. There is also a great section on paper prototyping of Silverlight applications including the initial evolution of the design. However, it was strange to see no mention of the new Sketchflow features in Blend 3 and I can only assume these were not known about at the time of writing. Hopefully any future editions will rectify this.

Of course there are a few things, as in every book, I'd think about changing. Firstly the title "Wrox Silverlight 3 Programmers Reference" personally I think the name implies a relatively short book that can be used to dip in and out of when required. Now, it is possible to use the book in that way but really it is a complete guide to Silverlight from the basics to example applications, for someone with existing .net / c# skills. The other feature that was disappointingly missing from the book was any highlighting of the new Siverlight Features. I was hoping to be able to flick through the book, brush up on a few things and read up on the new features but there is no visual highlighting and sometimes even no mention that particular features have been introduced in Silverlight 3.

Overall, this is a really solid book for learning Silverlight development in c# and some basic skills in Blend. There are a few parts of the book that could do with more editing to make a more consolidated read and a few missing features (like Sketchflow and highlight new Silverlight 3 features) that could be added in future versions but none of these change the fact that if you are looking to learn Silverlight this is a great book to start with.
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