first look on silverlight

Spent several days (~20 hrs) on reading the book “silverlight 2 visual essentials”.

This 240-page book is easy to read and understand (mostly). It provides only the basic content about the silverlight. It doesn’t include many examples and its examples are really basic. I could not remember it has any example that explains several attributes/features/functions togather. But it is good enough for a book with only 240 pages.

There are 3 things that I need read or practice again, or maybe need to find something else to read:

• dependence property is not easy to understand. But it is a key point in silverlight.
• need to understand more about the chapter 5 “the application model” before start with any project.
• could not understand well about “geometry mini-language” without any practice.

This book only has 8 pages describing 2D drawing and 4 pages describing animation. So, definitely, will find other books to know them.

Rate on it is 4 of 5. The reasons for minus 1 are:

• could not understand well  about dependence property, even I read twice.
• That would be better if it could provide any interesting example.

This is an introduction book, so,  it’s ok it does not cover any advanced topic.