OReilly - Essential Silverlight

There are two target audiences for this book: developers who would like to familiarize themselves with the Silverlight technology, and designers who would like to see what
Silverlight has to offer. My focus, however, is on the developer’s side. This book does not try to provide a complete reference to Silverlight. It is true to the concept of the
Essentials series: you will get Silverlight up and running soon, see the most important concepts, and will find lots of code examples.

There are currently two Silverlight versions available, 1.0 (released on September 4, 2007), and 1.1 (currently a alpha version). This book covers Silverlight 1.0, and only
provides a short preview to the upcoming version (which will come out sometime in 2008). Knowledge of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is not required, but if
you have already worked with it, you may already know some Silverlight basics. From a programming point of view, JavaScript is the language of choice. If you have not
worked with that language before, refer to the O’Reilly catalog for some excellent choices.