Silverlight, a cross-platform common language runtime (CLR), is a new technology from Microsoft for building rich interactive and connected applications for the Web. This tutorial shows how to get started building applications using Silverlight. Chapters cover topics including XAML, creating user interfaces, working with data and media, animation, security, and packaging and deploying Silverlight applications. The book concludes with a case study of the design and development of an application (an interactive map of a university campus) that uses many aspects of Silverlight to provide features such as images, video, control templating, and data binding. Readers should be familiar with .NET and developing on the .NET platform using C#, but familiarity with the Windows Presentation Foundation is not necessary. Scanlon is a Microsoft consultant. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)