About The Book

Your first look at the tools and techniques for creating rich Silverlight 2 experiencesGet a head start with Silverlight 2—the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for rich interactive applications and the next-generation user experience.

Featuring advance insights from inside the Microsoft Silverlight team, this book delivers the practical, approachable guidance and code to inspire your next solutions, and offers pointers to C# and XAML code samples on the Web.

Discover how to:

• Create your first simple sites and browser-hosted applications
• Use XAML to render, scale, and animate graphics on-screen
• Exploit Microsoft .NET runtime and Visual Studio language support
• Explore the full suite of controls—build and extend your own
• Experiment with media, ink, and Deep Zoom capabilities
• Create connected applications
• Put dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python to work
• Deliver skinned media content
• Manage Silverlight applications from ASP.NET–based servers