About this book

The overall goal of this book is to inform and educate you on the exciting and powerful Silverlight 2 platform. Think of this book as a guided tour through the Silverlight 2 SDK. After you've completed this book, you should be able to confidently design, develop, and deliver rich interactive applications using Silverlight. To facilitate the learning process, we've structured this book to get you developing valuable applications as fast as possible, while providing quality, in-depth content.

Within each chapter, we've included a collection of devices to help you build a firm understanding of Silverlight. The following list explains how each agent helps along the journey:

• Figure— Visual depictions that summarize data and help with the connection of complex concepts.
• Snippet— Small, concise pieces of code primarily used for showing syntactical formats. These individual segments generally can't be run on their own.
• Table— Easy-to-read summarizations.
  

In addition to these valuable learning devices, we've created a companion website, the best tool of all. The http://www.silverlightinaction.com website will provide all the code samples used in this book. In addition, you'll be able to run these code samples directly from your browser! This website will also expose a number of web services and other items that you can use to try out the material you learn in this book.