Pro Silverlight 5 in VB, 4th Edition
by Matthew MacDonald
Silverlight 5 is the latest iteration of Microsoft's cross-browser technology for creating rich user experiences on the Web. Like its predecessor, Silverlight 4, it rides atop the .NET Framework for maximum ease of use and coding efficiency. The new technology carries forward much of the work that has been done before and augments it in many important respects, including support for H.264 video, major ...
Price: $60.26 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide 
by Johnny Tordgeman
This book will provide all that you need to know to pass the Microsoft Silverlight 4 development (70-506) exam. Includes a comprehensive set of test questions and answers. The layout and content of the book matches that of the skills measured by the exam closely, which makes it easy to focus your learning and maximize your study time where you need improvement....
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012
Windows Phone 7 Development Internals 
by Andrew Whitechapel
Build Windows Phone applications optimized for performance and security. Drill into Windows Phone 7 design and architecture - and learn best practices for building a variety of applications. Each chapter focuses on a single Windows Phone building block or feature area, and shows you how to apply it in your applications. If you're an experienced .NET developer familiar with Microsoft Silverlight, you�...
Price: $5.38 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2012
by Mark J. Collins, Michael Mayberry
Pro Office 365 Development is a practical, hands-on guide to building cloud-based solutions using the Office 365 platform. This groundbreaking offering from Microsoft provides enterprise-class collaborative solutions at an affordable price, and this book shows you how to use the Office 365 platform to easily build amazing custom applications, including coding for Excel Services, Microsoft Access, and ShareP...
Price: $32.30 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
Beginning Windows Phone App Development
by Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov
Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio,Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK. It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'...
Price: $44.46 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2012
HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers
by Walt Ritscher
Graphic Shaders are used throughout the game and movie industry to improve onscreen graphics. They are versatile, doing important tasks like making computer rendered aliens look realistic, providing the ripples on a background lake or growing fur on the latest Pixar monster. In the PC world, programmers are often delighted to find that shaders are nothing more than a miniature program that is optimized to r...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight
by Bob German, Paul Stubbs
Developers increasingly want to build rich applications that run in the SharePoint 2010 browser user interface while offering a far more compelling and engaging experience than conventional web pages. One proven technology gives them all the tools and resources they need to achieve these goals: Silverlight. Using Silverlight and SharePoint together, developers can create state-of-the-art applications that u...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
by Laurent Bugnion
Using Silverlight 4, you can build richer and more powerful applications than ever before, and deploy them seamlessly in browsers, on desktop computers, and even on Windows Phone 7. In Silverlight 4 Unleashed, Microsoft Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion covers everything you need to do all this, and much more.The only full-color, example-rich guide to Silverlight 4 for experienced Microsoft developers, Silver...
Price: $3.65 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2011
by Shawn Wildermuth
Essential Windows Phone 7.5 is the definitive guide to creating powerful, visually compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 platform. Nine-time Microsoft MVP Shawn Wildermuth draws on his extensive experience teaching Silverlight and Windows Phone development, helping you to get started fast and master techniques that lead to truly outstanding apps.After ...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2011
Developer's Guide to Microsoft Prism 4
by Bob Brumfield, Geoff Cox, David Hill, Brian Noyes, Michael Puleio, Karl Shifflett
It can be challenging to design and build WPF or Silverlight client applications that are flexible, maintainable, and that can evolve over time based on changing requirements. These kinds of applications require a loosely coupled modular architecture that allows individual parts of the application to be independently developed and tested, allowing the application to be modified or extended later on. Additio...
Price: $12.86 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2011