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Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed
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Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed |
Author: Adam Nathan
Published: 2007-10-26 |
List price: $39.99
Our price: $29.19
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Great Book
Great book to get you started on silverlight. Once I got past Part 1, the book does a great job showing examples on how to use the silverlight elements.
 Wait until 2.0
I bought this hoping to learn SL. It only contains information on 1.0 which is very buggy. Granted that the author points out all these issues, but after reading the first few chapters it became apparent that even SL 1.1 is probably significantly improved. I didn't think it was worth the time to learn all the tricks to get around 1.0 issues. The author even states that when 1.0 was released, 1.1 was already in beta. I returned and decided to wait until SL 2.0, which should be in April 2008 or so.
Good book
This is a good book for an introduction to silverlight, but the argument are not treated so deeply. This book contains an overview of the silverlight engine with a good amount of basic example, it is a good book for everyone that does not know anything about silverlight and want to read the first book on the argument
 The best book on the subject
As a person who has read all the official documentation cover to cover and other Silverlight books cover to cover I can say that this is the best book on the subject.
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br /Even though I had already read over 500 pages on the subject I was still able to find over a hundred things that I had not encountered anywhere else. One example is animation. He explains how you can set animated "to" in Javascript and you don't need a "from". A animation problem that previously had me stuck for a week was solved with 10 lines of code.
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br /The examples are small and easy to follow. The coding is first rate. The "side bars" all contain priceless information. There is no fluff, if he wrote it down it's important. He also has all the code from the book online (http://www.adamnathan.net/silverlight/code/) where you can alter the examples in your web browser and see the results.
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br /I also read his Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF) (Unleashed) and that is the best book on that subject so it is not surprising that he was able to nail this one perfectly.
Best Alternative ATM
This is a very clear, concise, and fun to read book. The tips are extremely useful, the code works and the author does not get hang up on "tools" or ASP.NET. You WILL learn Silverlight and XAML.
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br /Worth every penny as it is a fast read and will save you many hours of reading the online documentation. Authors, pay attention, more books should be like this one!
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