Design with Silverlight

Sorry it's been so quiet around here lately... I've been super busy working on a big project.

I'm really happy to announce a Silverlight book, which I think will be really useful to a lot of people.

The title of the book is "Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation", and it will be published as part of the Foundation series from friends of ED (Apress).

The focus of the book is making things move in Silverlight, and that's what you'll get. A few of the early chapters deal with what you can do in Blend, but a good portion of the book is about animating from the code-behind, all written in a tutorial style that I hope will be informational and relatively easy to follow.

At the moment, there are over 150 projects - "build along" and "completed" versions for you to work with. All of the code and assets are included, so you can pick them apart, repurpose, optimize, and experiment to your heart's content! I still have a couple of chapters left to write, so the number of projects will increase.

I was really fortunate to land Rob Houweling as my technical editor - I'm sure he'll be happy to tell you more about his role in the project, but it involves digging in to a lot of code. =)

The book is due out in November, and is already listed on Amazon if you want to put it on your watch list.

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