https://www.developerfusion.com/t/silverlight/books/sort/popularity/ 2009-04-08T00:00:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44374/foundations-of-popfly-rapid-mashup-development-books-for-professionals-by-professionals/ 2008-01-28T00:00:00.00Z

Mashups are big; everybody and their dog are creating new and interesting ways of combining information on the Web. But if all the talk of APIs and complex code leaves you cold, you’ll be pleased to meet Microsoft Popfly. Popfly was created as a tool for designers to build mashups in a visual manner, rapidly, without needing to know any code.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/9421/accelerated-silverlight-2/ 2008-10-22T00:00:00.00Z

Accelerated Silverlight 2 will get you up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. Author Jeff Scanlon assumes you’re already comfortable with the basics of .NET coding and with WPF, and they help you build on your existing knowledge to make your journey to Silverlight 2 proficiency as quick and painless as possible.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43835/pro-silverlight-2-in-vb-2008-experts-voice-in-web-development/ 2008-12-19T00:00:00.00Z

Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43800/pro-silverlight-for-the-enterprise-books-for-professionals-by-professionals/ 2009-04-08T00:00:00.00Z

Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a new development platform designed to make the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) far easier than has previously been possible. Pro Silverlight for the Enterprise addresses the question of how you can bring Silverlight 2 to your company to provide rich Internet experiences that will interface cleanly with your existing application architecture.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43824/beginning-silverlight-2-from-novice-to-professional-books-for-professionals-by-professionals/ 2009-01-02T00:00:00.00Z

With the need for a richer user experience ever more in focus when creating web applications, Microsoft has released Silverlight, the new cross–browser, cross–platform plug–in that allows developers to create rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight poses exciting new opportunities for creating visually impressive web applications, offering unparalleled response times and minimal bandwidth requirements.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43828/silverlight-2-recipes-a-problemsolution-approach-experts-voice-in-net/ 2008-12-02T00:00:00.00Z

Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time. The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach have been carefully selected and tested with the professional developer in mind.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/38385/beginning-web-development-silverlight-and-aspnet-ajax-from-novice-to-professional-beginning-from-novice-to-professi/ 2008-02-25T00:00:00.00Z

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/5031/expert-c-business-objects-books-for-professionals-by-professionals/ 2004-07-08T00:00:00.00Z

This book is a translation of Rockford Lhotka's industry-standard title Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects into C# language. Lhotka's ideas remain extremely influential in .NET development, and this book translates those ideas directly to you, the C# programmer.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/11288/professional-silverlight-2-for-aspnet-developers-wrox-programmer-to-programmer/ 2009-02-03T00:00:00.00Z

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style! As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you're able to debug, troubleshoot, and performance-tune your Silverligh

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/9420/pro-silverlight-2-in-c-2008/ 2008-11-25T00:00:00.00Z

Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications.

James Crowley