Our overall goal in writing this book is to provide ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create stunning visual Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. As well as taking you through every feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will ensure that you? Can debug, troubleshoot, and performance-track your Silverlight application, and seamlessly connects back into the existing ASP.NET architecture and code base. Broad and includes features that Silverlight 2 provides, this book makes the point shows if need be how certain features can be integrated closely with host ASP.NET applications. An example is in Chapter 7, where the ASP.NET Profile service is used directly from within Silverlight to get some user data. This? S fair to say that although this book is aimed at ASP.NET developers, covering all the salient features of Silverlight 2 to the level that it sa programming a useful resource for developers not? Using ASP.NET as well. This book includes the full feature set of Silverlight 2, diving into each field of study to provide extensive depth and scope. In addition to teaching you about the component parts Silverlight APIs, this book also covers debugging, troubleshooting, and tuning the performance of your Silverlight application, arming you with all the skills and knowledge you will need? To create a Silverlight-based application developed in record time. Importantly, this book includes the points of integration between ASP.NET and Silverlight, takes you through different techniques that you can use to enhance the smooth ASP.NET web site to existing or new you with the power of Silverlight. If you want to program in Silverlight and potentially using ASP.NET as a host, then this book covers it all. The component pieces of the Silverlight application is also placed on a high level, and every knowledge required before submitting an application together is described. Part II was written to provide depth of knowledge in the Silverlight feature set, and show you how to harness the power of both Silverlight and ASP.NET to create interesting applications. A brief synopsis of the contents of the following: In short? Silverlight on?? It will teach you at a high level of what Silverlight is and how it can help you provide interesting, deep web applications. Silverlight Distinguishing from other web-based technologies are also discussed here, and a description of the necessary development environment is provided. Silverlight? Programming?? At the moment you arrive here, you? Will be itching to get started coding, and your code will be as agnostic-construction programming features that make a Silverlight application that is discussed in detail. The composition laid bare Silverlight applications and their constituent parts to explain at length, as well as detailing a lifetime Silverlight applications and how to hook into it. Differences option to embed the Silverlight plug-ins in your application is closed, followed by a brief overview of JavaScript and DOM-related. It shows you how to put all together to start arranging the user interface of your Silverlight application. Each layout controls that shipped with the Silverlight canvas covered here, Grid, StackPanel, and TabControl? Includes information on when to use which one. In addition to this, integrating with the ASP.NET Profile service through WCF is detailed, giving you the ability to personalize your Silverlight application on a per-user. Server? Communicating with? The ability to access data located in distributed sources is key in many applications Silverlight 2. This explains the framework of the data provided in your application and then dive into the Deeps work in data binding, showing you the different approaches you might take. In order to understand how data is retrieved, we explain the different technologies and techniques to get most of the Silverlight 2 data using the control data are available. ? Securing your Silverlight application? Are You? Return an Enterprise or hobby Silverlight developer, you'll want to release your application out into the wild at some point. This security framework introduced Silverlight, but it also talks you through your security responsibilities as a developer Silverlight. ? Audio and Video? Instilling a high-fidelity audio and video in Silverlight applications you are sure to capture your users?