Thank you for picking up Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed
! Silverlight is changing the way many people think about designing and developing websites or web applications, and this book helps you take advantage of everything Silverlight enables. Silverlight makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content or applications. And given that it’s possible to use Silverlight without expensive development or design tools, learning Silverlight is a wonderful way for everyone from hobbyists to professionals to create compelling software.
As Silverlight was developed, it was obvious that a new wave of books would appear in the marketplace. But it wasn’t clear to me that these Silverlight books would have the right balance to guide people through the technology while showing practical ways to exploit it. Therefore, I wrote Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed
with the following goals in mind:
. To provide a solid grounding in the underlying concepts in a practical and approachable fashion
. To answer the questions most people have when learning the technology, and to show how commonly desired tasks are accomplished
. To be an authoritative source, thanks to input from members of the Silverlight team who designed, implemented, and tested the technology
. To be clear about where the technology falls short, rather than selling the technology as the answer to all problems
. To be an easily navigated reference that you can constantly come back to
I hope you find this book to exhibit all these attributes.
