Part I. Illuminating Silverlight

Illuminating Silverlight

In this part . . .

This part gives you an introduction to Silverlight 4 and guides you to creating your first Silverlight application. We tell you what Silverlight is all about and what tools you need to install on your computer to get cracking in Silverlight.

The first chapter introduces Silverlight and provides an overview of what you can do with it. Chapter 2 takes off from there and helps you create simple applications using Visual Studio and Expression Blend. These two tools are the predominant tools covered in this book.

The final chapter of this part shows you how to set properties on user interface elements, or controls, and how to draw various shapes.

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