Silverlight 4: Creating Rich Web Applications

Silverlight 4 is a new Microsoft technology, designed to develop saturated Web applications, or apps with a "rich interface. The main characteristics of Silverlight applications are intensive use of graphics, animations, work with media files, as well as effective interaction with data and server components. In this case, the developer has the ability not only to use managed programming languages ​​(C #, VB.NET) to develop Silverlight applications, but also access to most advantages available in .NET Framework. If you take into account that the development of Silverlight applications is closely integrated into Visual Studio, it can be argued that the use of Silverlight will not cause difficulties from the existing .NET developers.
This book can be useful for everyone who decided to explore Silverlight 4 and already has common knowledge in developing applications on the .NET platform