The first book on ​Silverlight-​Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed

Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed-The first book on Silverlight written by Adam Nathan has been released (sort of).

This is what Adam has to say "I'm going through the very last revisions, but in parallel the book has now appeared on Safari as a "Rough Cut." What is a Rough Cut? The almost-final chapters in "raw" unformatted HTML."

Great news.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Check out his earlier book as well Windows Presentation Foundation Unleased:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=284945#284945

Highly recommend the earlier book and will be buying his Silverlight book as well.

Thanks again for the heads up!

Thanks for the links. But is this going to be a case of a book being obsolete just as its published? I thought Silverlight 1.1 was just around the corner...

It kind of reminds me of a Java core book I once owned.

pepper wrote:

Thanks for the links. But is this going to be a case of a book being obsolete just as its published? I thought Silverlight 1.1 was just around the corner...

It kind of reminds me of a Java core book I once owned.

Take a look at the Dr. Sneath interview for the distinction between 1.0 and 1.1:

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=340360

I wish the book would cover both too.

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/whatsnew/spotlight.php

Here is an interview with Adam Nathan on Silverlight 1.0

pepper wrote:

I thought Silverlight 1.1 was just around the corner...

What's your definition of "just around the corner"?

1.1 is an alpha. It doesn't even have the basics like textbox controls, radio buttons etc. At this week's UK Mix Scott Guthrie said the next milestone would only be about fixing the plumbing and so probably wouldn't get a public release so we're some way off 1.1 being "ready for prime time". Remember that Silverlight 1.1 support in VS 2008 ships as a "refresh" some time after VS 2008 itself goes RTM.

View and Edit Live Silverlight Examples
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is days away from shipping.  To celebrate, you can (1) pre-order your copy now and (2) check out examples from the book at http://www.adamnathan.net/silverlight/code.

You can not only view the HTML/XAML/JavaScript source and the resulting output, but you can edit all of it on-the-fly. 
There's a screencast that demonstrates it.