Essential Silverlight 3
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Essential Silverlight 3
Author: Ashraf Michail
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
ISBN-10: 0321554167
ISBN-13: 9780321554161
Paperback: 336 Pages
“The book you are holding contains the keys to writing great Silverlight 3 applications. Use them well!”
–From the Foreword by Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, Microsoft Developer Division
“Essential Silverlight 3 is not only filled with technical details, clear examples, and performance tips that will make any Silverlight application better, but Ashraf also includes insights that can only come from one of the lead developers of the Silverlight runtime. From graphics, to text, to media–this book contains all the information you need on the core Silverlight 3 runtime.”
–Brad Abrams, product unit manager, Microsoft
“The third iteration of Silverlight is a big step forward in true line-of-business capability for RIAs. Ashraf takes these new concepts and puts them forth in a meaningful and concise read.”
–Jason Beres, Microsoft MVP; author; INETA Speaker
“Essential Silverlight 3 is truly an essential book in the library of any Silverlight developer. The ‘Under the Hood’ portions of each chapter explain the details of Silverlight’s implementation, and the ‘Performance Tips’ explain how to use that information to get the most out of your software. I am very grateful I don’t have to track down or figure out all of this critical information on my own.”
–Noah Gedrich, director of technology, BLITZ Agency
“Ashraf Michail delivers an insightful and practical book for anyone seeking to better understand, master, and unlock the full potential of Silverlight 3. It is filled with code samples, performance tips, and other useful advice to help you create truly outstanding Silverlight applications.”
–Oleg Kokorin, CEO, MS Team, LLC
“Essential Silverlight 3 tackles in depth a rich, vast platform. The author has a depth of knowledge and technical insight that is present throughout, providing a pleasing ‘why’ on top of the usual ‘how.’”
–Richard Leggett, interactive developer
“This is a book of inestimable value on Silverlight. Even experienced Silverlight developers will learn from Essential Silverlight 3.”
–Mark Monster, software engineer, Rubicon
“A great reference and textbook on Silverlight 3.”
–Judith Myerson, systems architect and engineer
“Chock full of performance tips and information about Silverlight internals that you won’t find anywhere else.”
–Jeff Prosise, cofounder, Wintellect
“Skillfully written, comprehensively explained, and logically delivered. Essential Silverlight 3 is undoubtedly a must-have study and keepon- your-desk practical guide for building a wide range of high-value rich Internet applications.”
–Ash Rofail, CEO, Santeon, Inc.
“Essential Silverlight 3 is a must-read for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Silverlight Framework. In his book, Ashraf Michail, architect on the Silverlight team, offers unique insights into Silverlight’s architecture and design principles, along with guidance on how to improve the overall quality and performance of Silverlight applications.”
–Gerhard Schneider, senior development lead, Microsoft
“Essential Silverlight 3 does not just get your feet wet–its technical insights and performance tips take you for a deep dive into the Silverlight ocean.”
–Velvárt András, Silverlight MVP; founder, Response Ltd.
“This book really lives up to the title–essential, indeed. Anyone doing Silverlight 3, or looking to get started with it, needs this book close at hand.”
–Chris G. Williams, Microsoft MVP and principal consultant, Magenic Technologies
“A must-read for all software developers who are trying to build rich Silverlight applications with great performance–it provides many useful performance tips. I would recommend it to anyone trying to improve performance of Silverlight 3 applications.”
–Radenko Zec, senior software developer, Lanaco; INETA group leader, Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Microsoft Silverlight is a leading cross-platform, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology that allows you to create more compelling and interactive Web experiences than are possible with simple HTML browser pages. Silverlight 3 includes significant improvements over previous versions, including “out-of-browser” operation, H.264 video, 3D graphics, and real-time effects.
Essential Silverlight 3 is the definitive reference and insider’s guide. It not only covers all the key features of the Silverlight 3 runtime and how to use them but, in Under the Hood sections, explains why each feature was developed and how each one works. These “insider” explanations often lead to concise, practical performance tips that can help you speed up your own Silverlight applications.
Author Ashraf Michail is uniquely qualified to explain Silverlight 3. He is a Microsoft Silverlight architect who has guided Silverlight from its beginnings through the current version. In this book, he shows how to
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Integrate the principles and components of a Silverlight application, including XAP, XAML, and .NET code
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Use Silverlight vector graphics, bitmap images, and animation
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Display predictable and readable text across platforms and animate text elements
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Obtain mouse and keyboard input, including mouse wheel events
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Implement smooth animations to improve your user interface and make your application more pleasing to the user
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Use the Canvas, StackPanel, Grid, and Border elements to lay out your application and define custom layout elements
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Play high-quality, live, and on-demand video and audio
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Customize the built-in and toolkit controls and develop new custom Silverlight controls
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Connect to and synchronize with data using Silverlight Data Binding
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Use built-in real-time effects and define custom HLSL pixel shaders
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Enable GPU-accelerated rendering
If you are a developer who is getting started with Silverlight or an expert Silverlight developer who is interested in understanding the inner workings of the Silverlight runtime, this book is for you.
Essential Silverlight 3 (Paperback)
by Ashraf Michail
ISBN: 0321554167
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Price: USD 29.69
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I did not keep knowledge of Silverlight up to date after Silverlight 2.0, so when I had do a project where there was potential to use Silverlight, I headed to the bookstore. I scanned through the available SIlverlight 3 books and this book came across as most promising. Things that immediately caught my attention: Scott Guthrie’s foreword and under the hood sections.
From my perspective, the good things about the book are:
1. It is easy to read. My style of reading is to quickly read entire books in the first pass to grasp the key points quickly and I found that this book is perfectly suited for my style.
2. The coverage is excellent. It covers all aspects of SIlverlight at the appropriate depth. I never found the book chatty.
3. Under the hood sections are extremely valuable. For instance, you will learn about the frame rate in silverlight and how you can use that to debug the bottlenecks in your application.
Rating: 5 / 5
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I am a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft (so I am continually educating developers in new technologies). This books is a ‘must read’ for .NET Silverlight 3.0 Developers. It not only contains the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of SL 3 development, but also, critically the ‘under the hood’ sections dive deep into the ‘why we made it this way’ and ‘how you can/should best use’ the features we’ve implemented.
The author is on the product team and has a strong graphics development background. This background shows in the detailed, yet clear explainations throughout the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
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This book was a dissapointment for me, i expected something special, but it shows you how to draw and do some stuff with the UI, but it touches superficially the animations, WCF services (only way to get to a database) is not there. How to create converters, or your own custom controls, isolated storage, deep zoom, the new navigation all of that is missing and more.
The PRO Silverlight 3 with C# is much more complete and all around book.
Rating: 2 / 5
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The book is a great guide to most of the essentials of Silverlight 3.0. I say most because it misses a few key pieces of the puzzle. There is no coverage of services, no coverage of the navigation framework, and very little coverage of the Silverlight Toolkit.
Those points made, the topics covered are covered very well in the context of the essentials. The book is very well written. It is organized in a very logical and clean format.
Most of the essentials books I have read are overly complex, this one is overly simplified, and that makes it a great beginner’s text. Just be aware of the missing pieces of the puzzles.
The biggest ding was the “Technical Insight”, “Debugging Tip”, and “Performance Tip”. I’d say one third of them where just observations that you would have to be blind to miss, one third were hints or clues that you have to research further or come to the table with prior knowledge to figure out, and one third were valuable.
I could find no code download, which would have been nice to have for the graphics chapter.
This book had an army of very well know people give it praise. That was the main reason for my purchase. I will ignore praise like this from now on, because most of it was bull.
All in all, the book is excellently written and organized, and the content covered is great. I do recommend buying it, because the dings I mention above of more of a personal preference and may not apply to everyone. The content is definitely worth reading.
Rating: 3 / 5
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I really like the directness of the text–gets right to the point and has great organisation. I’ve been reading about Silverlight 3 for a few weeks now and “Essential Silverlight 3″ is really helping pull the various things I’ve read together into a clearer picture. The organisation of the book is simple and works well for me as a developer. I’m still reading through the text but so for I really like it–good substance without a bunch of gas. Some of the example don’t quite work, but I was still able to grasp the content.
Rating: 4 / 5
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