Silverlight is one of the biggest new technologies to be released by Microsoft in recent years. Interest in it amongst the Microsoft development community has been huge, dwarfing even that show for ASP.NET AJAX. A partially complete version of Silverlight (version 1.0) was released earlier this year without support for the .NET framework. A new version with full .NET support is being released early in 2008 and it is this complete version that is targeted in this book.

The book takes readers on a guided tour of all the new tools that are available to create Silverlight applications, from Expression Design and Expression Blend through to Visual Studio 2008. The book explains how each of the tools performs it's part of the job of putting together well-constructed Silverlight applications and demonstrates this with a series of straight-forward examples that illustrate how developers and designers can perform their roles in harmony.

Expression is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing and most exciting web development technologies to be released to date. It is a brand new technology so everyone will be starting from the same place the beginning This book is being timed to coincide with the release of the full '1.1' version of Silverlight that ties it into the .NET 3.5 Framework that is also being officially released in this month. It will demonstrate the full range of Silverlight's capabilities and how it is linked into the .NET Framework The author, Bob Lair, has been following the technology's release cycle since its early alpha and has been deeply involved in building commercial applications based on the 1.0 version of the software. He has written both books and articles in the past that have been well received

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Robert Lair is the president and chief executive officer of Intensity Software, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft .NET technologies since prior to its initial release in 2000. Among his accomplishments, Robert was on the team that created the original ASP.NET sample application IBuySpy, used to demonstrate the power of ASP.NET. Robert is an active speaker and writer in the development community.

Inhalt
Welcome to Silverlight 2.- to Visual Studio 2008.- Layout Management in Silverlight.- Silverlight Form Controls.- Data Binding and Silverlight List Controls.- Data Access and Networking.- Local Storage in Silverlight.- to Expression Blend.- Styling in Silverlight.- Transformations and Animation.- Custom Controls.