Silverlight 4: Building Rich Web Applications

Silverlight 4 is a new technology from Microsoft designed for developing rich Web applications, or applications with a rich, highly interactive interface. Silverlight applications make heavy use of graphics and animation, work with media files, and interact efficiently with data and server-side components. Moreover, developers can use managed programming languages (C#, VB.NET) to develop Silverlight applications and gain access to most of the capabilities of the .NET Framework. Because developing Silverlight applications is tightly integrated with Visual Studio, existing .NET developers should have no trouble using it.

This book will be useful for anyone who wants to learn Silverlight 4 and already has a general understanding of building applications on the .NET platform.