Silverlight 2 Bible

Silverlight 2 is a powerful Internet application and Microsoft's solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for rich internet applications. The Silverlight 2 Bible, will provide you with a strong foundation in Silverlight whereby you will quickly be able to create and deliver a variety of Silverlight applications. This book will show you exactly how to build everything from basic Silverlight-enabled web pages with graphics and video, to professional, Silverlight-enhanced ASP.NET applications that link to powerful back-end services. The Silverlight 2 Bible will discuss development tools, such as Visual Studio 2008, as well as design tools such as Expression Blend, Expression Encoder and Deep Zoom Composer, which Microsoft has positioned for designing state of the art UI in Silverlight applications.