Preface
It was 2006 when Silverlight made its debut with the confusing acronym WPF/E, for Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Like many other developers at the time, my first reaction was to dismiss the technology as yet another plug-in. Silverlight struggled in its early days to prove its identity as something more powerful than just another media player. Through an extremely rapid release cycle, Version 3.0 became available in 2009 and .NET developers began to take notice.
At the time I was working on an extremely large web-based enterprise application that provided a desktop-like experience using HTML and JavaScript. Our developers had to become experts not only in multiple languages—switching between XML, JavaScript, C#, and CSS—but ...
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