Download or read book Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX written by Laurence Moroney and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a huge surge in interest in ‘Web 2.0’ technologies over the last couple of years. Microsoft’s contribution to this area has been the ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight technologies, coupled to a supporting framework of ancillary tools. This book aims to be a no nonsense introduction to these technologies for the rapidly growing number of people who are realizing that they need Microsoft-based ‘Web 2.0’ skills on their CV. It gives people a grounding in the core concepts of the technologies and shows how they can be used together to produce the results that people need. The author has unparalleled experience of introducing people to these technologies.