August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed
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Delivering Interactive Experiences Across Platforms
Microsoft continues its push to help developers and designers deliver a much richer user experience (similar to WPF) within a web browser. This technology is called Silverlight. With it you can create media-rich sites that include brochure-ware, interactive games, new shopping and buying experiences, interactive training, and sites that deliver video and audio. It was built to enable you to create truly rich, truly unique user experiences over the web.
Because Microsoft Silverlight targets the web, it was built to work cross-platform and cross-browser. This means it works on Mac OS and Windows XP/7/Vista (there is even a Linux project called Moonlight underway by the community). In addition, ...