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Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed





Microsoft Silverlight allows you to create rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers. With Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, you’ll learn to use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology in conjunction with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). You will ultimately incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that render Silverlight content. But you’ll also get the basics of Silverlight, too, making this book a must-read for any web developer curious about Silverlight.

Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed assumes a deep knowledge of ASP.NET, but no knowledge of Silverlight.




Silverlight 1.0





Silverlight—the hot new web technology based on the powerful WPF graphics platform that ships with Windows Vista—is the web developer’s choice for creating cross-platform interactive applications that work in multiple browsers. This one-of-a-kindreference shows you, with full-color illustrations, how to create rich interactive apps with Silverlight.

In these color-filled pages, a crack team of Wrox experts gives you a comprehensive introduction to Silverlight. You’ll see the vivid graphics and video images you can achieve. You will learn to use the component languages, tools, and techniques of Silverlight to create applications that enhance the user experience. You’ll also discover how to leverage existing technologies, such as JavaScript? XAML, ASP.NET, and AJAX, and incorporate them with development tools like Visual Studio? Expression?Encoder, and Expression Blend. Soon you’ll be building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation.

What you will learn from this book

* Easy ways to incorporate graphics, animation, audio, and video into Internet applications
* Methods for creating rich media apps that run on Windows?and Mac? as well as in Internet Explorer, Firefox? and Safari
* How to write standard JavaScript within an HTML page to manipulate and program against any XAML DOM element, storyline animation, or video
* Ways to integrate Silverlight within existing HTML pages, web sites, and ASP.NET applications
* How to handle data access in Silverlight applications using AJAX




Essential Silverlight





Essential Silverlight teaches experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers how to add more interactive and graphically rich interfaces to their web applications using the new Microsoft?Silverlight?cross browser plug-in.

This new, always up to date title will be revised as the software is revised, so purchasing now means you’ll get updated versions of the PDF until the final print version is released, which we anticipate to be in Summer of 2008.

Essential Silverlight teaches experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers how to add more interactive and graphically rich interfaces to their web applications using the new Microsoft?Silverlight?cross browser plug-in.

1. Concise: Essential Silverlight is a concise introduction to Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 1.1 that doesn’t waste your time.
2. Always Up-to-Date: Essential Silverlight will be published initially as an eBook with a print-on-demand option when Silverlight 1.0 ships and will be updated each time Microsoft releases a new beta or release candidate for Silverlight 1.1 releases.
3. Day and date: The final edition of Essential Silverlight will be published when Silverlight 1.1 releases in 2008.
4. Expert author: Christian Wenz is author of Programming ASP.NET AJAX (O’Reilly, 2007) and numerous books on JavaScript in English and in German. He has written on all of the competing RIA technologies ?- Flash, PHP, ActionScript, ASP.NET ?and understands the market well.
5. Loaded with code: Essential Silverlight includes scores of tested examples readers can cut and paste for reuse in their own applications. All code is available for download from O’Reilly.
6. Browser agnostic and platform aware: Essential Silverlight will cover all of the browsers supported by Silverlight (including IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera), and will also point out differences as they become known between the Windows and Mac OS platforms.




Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed





Full Color

Code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!

Silverlight is a lightweight but powerful plug-in for multiple web browsers on multiple operating systems that makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content, applications, and controls. With support for vector graphics, animations, full-screen high-definition video, and more, Silverlight gives you the ability to create more compelling content than you dreamed possible for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Silverlight provides much of the power of Windows Presentation Foundation, but with less overhead and easy integration with HTML and AJAX-style applications. Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is the authoritative book that covers the technology in a practical and approachable fashion, authored by Silverlight guru and Microsoft developer Adam Nathan.

* Covers everything you need to know about Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) in Silverlight
* Examines the Silverlight feature areas in depth: graphics, text, audio, video, animation, ink, events, and more
* Demonstrates how to create reusable controls and perform common tasks (such as drag-and-drop) using basic building blocks
* Explains how to download assets asynchronously to maximize your user experience
* Demonstrates how to create hybrid applications that mix Silverlight content with HTML or Flash content
* Highlights features scheduled for future versions of Silverlight while showing how to achieve your desired results with the current version