Lucas Moffitt

Everyone likes something that is simple. But people often get confused as to what’s simple and what’s hard, often without even looking at it.

Laurence Moroney takes the seemingly difficult and turns it into Lego blocks that even the most confused developers can understand.

“Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 3” makes it easy.

With his help and this book you can:

• Create your first simple sites
• Build applications that run out of the browser
• Use XAML to render, scale, and animate graphics on-screen
• Work with Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio
• Explore core and advanced controls—and build your own
• Exploit new graphics support—3-D effects, H.264 video, GPU acceleration
• Experiment with media, ink, DeepZoom, and Photosynth
• Access data services to build connected applications
• Dynamically add content using Ruby and Python
• Manage Silverlight applications from ASP.NET–based servers
• Learn how to deliver DRM-protected video content

This book is best aimed at those who are new to Silverlight and are interested in learning about what it is and how it works, those if you who are seasoned professionals most probably wont take anything away from it.

I personally think sketchflow is the greatest invention since sliced bread. But that may just be me.

Regardless of that it’s a great way to get into Silverlight 3 and the cool new features of Expression Studio (Available to Students for free by the way @ Dreamspark)

Lucas

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Microsoft Dreamspark is one of those things that isn’t that well known about in Australia, and that’s about to change.

Microsoft Dreamspark offers the latest of development technologies to students, for free.

Yeah, no Joke. Free.

Take a look.

So, What’s the catch? well other than having to be a student, there’s nothing. All you have to do is validate your student email address with Dreamspark, and then use your live profile (Your msn email) to link them together.

Once that’s done take a look at what’s on show.

Visual Studio 2008 – Professional Edition

• SQL Server 2008 – Developer
• XNA Game Studio 3.1
• CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 (R2)
• Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (R2)
• Windows Server 2008 – Standard
• Expression Studio 3
• Windows Server 2003
• Visual Studio 2005 – Professional Edition
• Visual Studio 2005 – Express Edition
• SQL Server – Express
• Virtual PC

There are some major drawcards right there.

Server, Visual Studio, the WHOLE expression suite, that’s awesome for pretty much any student.

Go take a look now and get some free stuff!

Lucas.