Who This Book Is For

This book covers not just Silverlight as a technology but also the important concepts in designing and developing business applications. From structuring your application to actually implementing features, it covers the complete development life span for a business application in Silverlight.

To follow along with this book, you should know your way around Visual Studio well, have a reasonable degree of familiarity with C# and its features (such as generics and LINQ, although experience with a similar language such as Visual Basic or Java may suffice), be comfortable with designing and querying databases, and have a good understanding of object-oriented design (OOD). Some prior business application development experience (or ...

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