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I am going for a Silverlight 4 Journey but I need to decide which book to take, so I hope some people can help me decide which one. I have a bit of C# Knowledge, learned from MSDN and made a simple library application in WPF. I haven't got any former Silverlight expierence. At the moment I got these two books(see title). If I read Unleashed 4 I need to read the former book silverlight 2 Unleashed first I think. Which book do you advise? |
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The Pro Silverlight book would be my choice. Mainly because Pro series have their use of explaining very concise and thoroughly the important basics inside and behind a system. I like to know how things stick together, it gives me more insight. It requires some technical knowledge though. The "Unleashed" books take a more problem-oriented approach. I think it's easier to bootstrap with the Unleashed book. I have one on my desk right now and use it mainly as reference guide. That isn't particularly the way it's written, but it works quite well - look up, read explanations - done :-). And if you want colored prints, that'll be your choice ;-) Choose what fits you best. |
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besides the two you posted, I can really recommend Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown! Btw. he is currently working on Silverlight 5 in Action. |
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I am reading both the Silverlight 4 Unleashed and Silverlight 4 in Action. I feel the later is much more vivid, especially when he guides you refactoring a code-behind style project in to a MVVM pattern,which finally makes me understood the essence of MVVM. |
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