TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 SN - 9781430205647 AV - QA76.6-76.66 U1 - 005.11 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Berkeley, CA PB - Apress KW - Computer science KW - Computer Science KW - Programming Techniques N1 - Introducing Silverlight -- XAML -- Layout -- Dependency Properties and Routed Events -- Elements -- The Application Model -- Shapes and Geometries -- Brushes and Transforms -- Animation -- Sound, Video, and Deep Zoom -- Styles, Templets, and Custom Controls -- Browser Intergration -- ASP.NET and Web Services -- Data Binding -- Isolated Storage -- Multithreading -- Networking; ZDB-2-CWD N2 - Silverlight is a lightweight browser plugin that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It's a ruleschanging, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it's able to host true .NET applications in nonMicrosoft browsers (like Firefox) and on nonMicrosoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it. With fourcolor graphics and screenshots throughout, Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: you'll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you'll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlightall of the same .NET technology that developers use to design nextgeneration Windows applications. Author Matthew MacDonald provides an expertly crafted tutorial, written from professional developer to professional developer. You'll learn to create rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in, no matter what the target platform UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0564-7 ER -