Essential Skills Made Easy!

This hands-on guide prepares software developers to create next-generation Web and Windows applications using Microsoft Silverlight--the new technology that extends the .NET Framework to the client. The book covers Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, the .NET Framework 3.5, and prerequisite technologies. You will learn to use Silverlight to stream multimedia content across the Web, create dynamic, data-driven Silverlight applications, and implement security.

Chapter 1. The Road Leading to Silverlight; Chapter 2. .NET Framework 3.5; Chapter 3. The Silverlight Framework; Chapter 4. Animating Silverlight; Chapter 5. Preparing Media for Use in Silverlight; Chapter 6. Communicating with the Outside World; Chapter 7. Who Goes There...Securing Silverlight Applications; Chapter 8. Designing Silverlight User Interfaces; Chapter 9. Working with Data in Silverlight; Chapter 10. Retrieving Server Resources; Chapter 11. Debugging the Deploying Silverlight Applications; Chapter 12. Developing Line of Business (LOB) Applications; Index