Chapter 1. Introducing Silverlight

First of all, let me thank you for starting at chapter 1. I’m one of those people who tend to read magazines backwards and skim technology books, so I appreciate it when someone reads a book’s chapters in order. Then again, maybe you read this book backwards as well. In that case, you’ll find the “Hello World!” walkthrough in this chapter to be a refreshingly simple take on building Silverlight applications unencumbered with patterns such as Model View ViewModel (MVVM), words such as DependencyProperty, and technologies such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services. For the rest of you, don’t worry—we’ll cover each of those throughout the rest of the book, steadily building our Silverlight skills as we go.

1.1. Silverlight and the web

1.2. Silverlight and WPF

1.3. Types of Silverlight applications

1.4. What’s new since the first edition

1.5. Getting started with Silverlight development

1.6. Building your first Silverlight web application

1.7. Summary