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 ...

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