Experience the power of Silverlight. With features such as high quality video and audio with HD streaming, native 3D graphics, offline applications, and enhanced Deep Zoom, Silverlight 3 is the richest release yet. Experience Silverlight is a guided tour of the most cutting-edge features of Silverlight 3. It is not intended to dive into the "nuts and bolts" of the technology but rather showcase its standout features and aid developers in answering the question, "Why should I use Silverlight?" Current Silverlight developers will also find this book an invaluable resource in exploring Silverlight 3's more advanced features. This book is written with the following goals in mind:
- Showcases the coolest features of Silverlight
- Guides you through Silverlight's abilities, pointing out what's important and how it can benefit you
- Shows you how to create the experiences featured in the book
What you'll learn
- Explore new features in Silverlight 3
- Experience advanced topics such as 3D and animation
- Use and learn standout Silverlight features such as Deep Zoom technology
- Learn the principles of game and application development in Silverlight 3 from the pros
- Get the best from multimedia assets in your Silverlight 3 applications
- Improve your Silverlight 3 applications using the top-flight techniques shown here
Who this book is for
This book is primarily intended for web developers who are new to Silverlight or current Silverlight developers who are looking to explore its more advanced features. Regardless of whether the reader is a beginner or a more advanced developer, this book will suit both audiences. It provides full advanced sample projects and plenty of working code snippets for various application elements that can be used in varying types of web applications. The procedural code presented in this book is written in C#. Having a basic understanding of Silverlight is helpful, but certainly not a requirement.
Flash developers considering Silverlight development will find this book useful in helping answer the question "Why should I consider using Silverlight 3?" Anyone looking for an alternative to Flash will find this book to be a useful resource in deciding which platform to use in development.
This book is also intended for WPF developers trying to learn new techniques to apply in their WPF applications. Because WPF and Silverlight share very similar syntax, the majority of the code found in this book can be applied in WPF applications. Although you will not be able to copy all of the files from the Silverlight projects into a WPF project, the majority of the code will remain intact. Minor tweaks to the code are required to convert the samples to WPF.
Finally, although this book is intended for developers, designers may find some of the information useful as it does shed some light on the tools used to design Silverlight application (primarily Expression Blend).
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