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41. | Game Programming with Silverlight™ By: Michael Snow Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 16-JUN-2009 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Game Programming with Silverlight™ This book is a comprehensive guide that will walk readers through every feature needed to create a web based game using Silverlight, a new, free rendering tool that supports a variety of programming languages and fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers. Each chapter in the book builds upon the previous and by the end of the book the user will have completed the creation of a multi-player online adventure game for the web using Silverlight. There are no other books on the market that teach game programming using Silverlight, and its web-based platform makes...
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42. | Silverlight 2: Professionelle Rich-Media-Anwendungen By: Georg Abramidis Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag Publication Date: 05-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 01-JUL-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight 2: Professionelle Rich-Media-Anwendungen
Hier erfahren Sie alles Wissenswerte, um Silverlight für professionelle Rich-Media-Anwendungen einzusetzen. Das Buch richtet sich an Designer und Programmierer, die die Vorteile einer neuen Technologie wie Silverlight nutzen wollen. Neben einem Schnelleinstieg in Silverlight und kleineren Projekten sind Video-Streaming, Deep Zoom und Spiele-Entwicklung weitere Themen.
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43. | By: Brad Dayley; Lisa DaNae Dayley Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight™ 2 Bible
Create rich, cross-platform, interactive Web applications with Microsoft's new Silverlight and this essential guide. Designers will discover how to add animation, audio, video, and other high-impact effects. Programmers will cover Visual Studio, .NET, and other programming tools—and work with Silverlight's presentation, communications, and data frameworks. Packed with techniques, tips, and a 16-page color insert of striking examples, this is the book you need to succeed with Silverlight—whether you're a designer or programmer.
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44. | Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: Jit Ghosh; Rob Cameron Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 29-APR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every-day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready-made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time.
The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach have been carefully selected and tested with the professional developer in mind. You'll find clearly and succinctly stated problems, well-architected solutions, and ample discussion of the...
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45. | By: Matthew MacDonald Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 14-APR-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008
Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug-in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It's a rules-changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it's able to host true .NET applications in non-Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non-Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is still new and evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.
With four-color graphics and screenshots throughout, Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect...
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46. | By: Chad Campbell; John Stockton Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 21-FEB-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight 2 in Action ***When you purchase the Print book, you can download a PDF copy
from Manning Publications at no additional charge***
Microsoft describes Silverlight as a "cross-browser,
cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET
based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the
Web." That's a really boring description for a really exciting new
technology. Anyone who has looked at the demos and gotten a taste
of what Silverlight can do knows that Silverlight represents an
entirely new level of rich web interface technology for Microsoft
developers.
With Silverlight 2,...
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47. | Microsoft® Silverlight™ Graphics By: Oswald Campesato Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 06-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 07-JAN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft® Silverlight™ Graphics Silverlight represents an entirely new level of rich Web interface technology for Microsoft developers. With the new power of this development environment comes new challenges for graphic artists and programmers to use this technology to its fullest. "Microsoft Silverlight Graphics" will help you quickly become productive in Silverlight, teaching you how to use the program to create stunning graphics and animations. You'll learn how to create Silverlight applications; using graphics, animation, audio, and video....
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48. | Creating a Web Video in Silverlight: Visual QuickProject Guide By: Bruce Hyslop Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 16-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating a Web Video in Silverlight: Visual QuickProject Guide For Web designers and developers who want to add
great-looking video to their Web site fast. The full-color
projects in this book teach all the techniques needed to enhance
Web sites with Silverlight video.
This book takes the approach that Web designers don't need to know
every feature in Silverlight; Creating a Web Video in Silverlight:
Visual QuickProject Guide shows designers just what they need to
get their project done fast....
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49. | Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 By: John Papa Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 22-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 16-DEC-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business
applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of
data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with
Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service
tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying
component, RESTful and SOAP web service support, cross-domain web
service calls, and Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Services and the
ADO.NET Entity Framework.
With this book, you will:
Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to
ObjectsLearn how Silverlight 2...
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50. | Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed By: Matthew MacDonald Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 16-OCT-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed
Microsoft Silverlight allows you to create rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers. With Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, you'll learn to use Microsoft's Silverlight technology in conjunction with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). You will ultimately incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that render Silverlight content. But you'll also get the basics of Silverlight, too, making this book a must-read for any web developer curious about...
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51. | By: Laurent Bugnion Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 15-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 26-SEP-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Silverlight 2 Unleashed Full Color Code samples appear as they do in
Visual Studio and Expression Blend!
Printed entirely in color, with helpful
figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do
in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!
Silverlight is Microsoft’s new
web-based User Interface (UI) technology, based on Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF), which is introducing many
revolutionary concepts in the world of UI development. Silverlight
uses XAML, with tools like Expression Design and Expression Blend,
to create astonishing UI effects (such as gradients, compositions,
and animations.) In...
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52. | Introducing Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2, Second Edition, Second Edition By: Laurence Moroney Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 14-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introducing Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2, Second Edition, Second Edition Get a jump on the next release of Silverlight with early insights
from a Technical Evangelist on the Microsoft Silverlight team. This
guide describes how you can simplify the development and deployment
of rich interactive applications (RIAs) by using Silverlight 2
tools with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 and the
Microsoft .NET Framework. RIAs are Web applications with the
features and functionality of full desktop applications. Processing
tasks are performed on the client, but data is stored on the
server. With Silverlight, RIAs install quickly via a small,
on-demand plug-in. This book...
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53. | By: Ashraf Michail Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 21-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 26-JUN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Silverlight 3 “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
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...
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54. | A one-stop resource for each aspect of
designing and developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who
wants to create killer gadgets
Explores one of the super cool features new to Windows Vista --
the Sidebar
It is a one-stop resource for each aspect of designing and
developing Sidebar gadgets, perfect for anyone who wants to create
killer gadgets
Includes complete design instructions for four
never-before-seen gadgets
Windows Vista Sidebar is a panel located on
the desktop of a PC where gadgets can be placed for easy access and
reference. These gadgets are...
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55. | Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date By: Christian Wenz Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 29-APR-2008 Insert Date: 10-APR-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
Design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using
Silverlight 2, Microsoft's hot runtime application. Available only
as an ebook, this concise, easy-to-understand introduction provides
complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight
2 has to offer, including tools for animation, vector graphics,
video playback, .NET support for web services and networking, as
well as LINQ, Microsoft's native data querying tool.
Essential Silverlight 2 helps you take advantage of
Microsoft's cross-browser plug-in with:
Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust...
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By: Todd Anglin Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 03-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 10-OCT-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introducing Silverlight 1.1
In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and
bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a
broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and how
Silverlight fits into that picture. Then we'll examine how you work
with Silverlight 1.1, highlighting tools, concepts, and code that
you will need to build these interactive applications. Finally,
we'll take a practical look at using Silverlight 1.1 to build a
custom control, pulling all of the concepts and tools together.
Join ASP.NET Master and Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd
Anglin...
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57. | Overview: Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed Full Color
Code samples appear as they do in Visual
Studio and Expression Blend!
Printed entirely in color, with helpful
figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do
in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!
Silverlight is a lightweight but powerful
plug-in for multiple web browsers on multiple operating systems
that makes it easier than ever to create rich web-based content,
applications, and controls. With support for vector graphics,
animations, full-screen high-definition video, and more,
Silverlight gives you the ability to create more compelling content
than you...
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Getting Started with Silverlight By: Shawn Wildermuth Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 27-APR-2007 Insert Date: 06-JUN-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Started with Silverlight
Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-browser plug-in for delivering
richer web experiences to end-users, including video and
animations. Silverlight is generating buzz not only inside the
traditional Microsoft developer community, but also among designers
and web developers who have long relied on other tools such as
Macromedia Flash to get their jobs done.
Though Silverlight is still in beta, there's no need to wait. In
this Short Cut, Siverlight-insider and Microsoft MVP Shawn
Wildermuth introduces you to Silverlight's key features and shows
you how to tap into its functionality to spice...
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