Microsoft just released Silverlight in September, a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering media experiences and interactive applications for the Web. A direct competitor to Adobe’s market dominant Flash application, Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, Visual C#, Visual Basic, and other languages. Developers are lining up to get started with Silverlight and take advantage of the powerful WPF graphics platform. Wrox Press is releasing SILVERLIGHT 1.0 (Wrox Press, an imprint of Wiley; $39.99; October 2007), a one-of-a-kind reference with full-color illustrations shows developers how to create rich interactive applications with Silverlight. Written by a crack team of experts from Infragistics, this book puts readers on the fast track to building everything from basic static pages to Internet applications that integrate rich media and animation.
Silverlight runs within multiple browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and operating systems (Windows and Macintosh), and it easily integrates within existing HTML pages and sites. The platform leverages existing familiar technologies such as JavaScript, XAML, ASP.NET and AJAX, and delivers a powerful new browser plug-in “player” to give developers the power to create highly immersive, interactive web-based applications. The technology is designed to allow Web developers to use existing skills to create rich interactive applications (RIAs). Inside SILVERLIGHT 1.0, readers will learn:
- Easy ways to incorporate graphics, animation, audio, and video into Internet applications
- Methods for creating rich media apps that run on Windows and Mac, as well as in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari
- How to write standard JavaScript within an HTML page to manipulate and program against any XAML DOM element, storyline animation, or video
- Ways to integrate Silverlight within existing HTML pages, web sites, and ASP.NET applications
- How to handle data access in Silverlight applications using AJAX
Additionally, this book addresses security, data access using AJAX, and the latest tools for building Silverlight applications, including Visual Studio 2007, Expression Blend 2.0 and Expression Media Encoder. SILVERLIGHT 1.0 is the perfect reference for professional web developers who want to take advantage of Silverlight’s capabilities to create rich interactive applications.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Devin Rader (Burlington, NJ) is the Web Client Product Manager at Infragistics, the world’s leading publisher of presentation layer tools and components. Devin is responsible for leading the creation of Infragistics’ ASP.NET and Silverlight products. He is an active member of the .NET developer community, a former INETA board member, and regular speaker at user groups. He has written columns for ASP.NET Pro magazine, as well as articles for MSDN Online. (Find more at https://geekswithblogs.com/devin)
Jason Beres (Ewing, NJ) is Director of Product Management for Infragistics Jason is a Visual Basic.NET MVP, and he is on the INETA Speakers Bureau and its Board of Directors. He’s written several books on .NET development, is an international speaker, and a frequent columnist for several .NET publications.
J. Ambrose Little (Princeton, NJ) is the User Experience and Guidance group lead at Infragistics; he is also a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP, and an ASPInsider. He’s an author of numerous articles, co-author of two Wrox titles, and speaks at various user groups, events, and conferences.
Grant Hinkson (East Windsor, NJ) is Director of Visual Design at Infragistics. He loves both design and development, and thrives in the worlds of Silverlight and WPF.
ABOUT WROX PRESS
Written by actual programmers, Wrox books offer the benefits of real-world experience and road-tested examples that really work. "Beginning" books provide a complete working knowledge of the subject, using hands-on lessons and proven training techniques. "Professional" and "Expert One-On-One" books are loaded with practical, focused information from leading technology experts. "Programmer’s Reference" books are invaluable for their detailed, on-the-job reference support. "Problem-Design-Solution" books analyze development problems programmers encounter and supply solutions that work. Wrox books help programmers get the job-then do the job better. For more information, visit wrox.com. Wrox is an imprint of Wiley.
ABOUT INFRAGISTICS
Infragistics has been the market leader in the presentation layer components industry for over 18 years. With a comprehensive portfolio of multi-platform Enterprise Software products and services, Infragistics has achieved global reach in nearly every Fortune 2000 company. Infragistics empowers developers to build and style great application user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and JSF, and additionally offers user interface test tools, support, training and consulting services.
With a history of success and a corporate culture focused on delighting customers, Infragistics continues to grow and prosper. Infragistics is constantly innovating and aggressively recruiting world-wide to fuel new ideas in offices in the US, UK, Japan, France, Canada and India. For additional information on Infragistics, products and career opportunities, please visit www.infragistics.com or call us in the US at 1 (609) 448-2000, in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa (EMEA) at +44 (0) 20 8387 1474, or in Japan at +81-3-5474-8040.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on October 12, 2007
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