How did you learn/Best Way to learn Silverlight

Question

SO i have searched on stackoverflow and there does not seem to be any answers for this. So if you can, What is the best way to actually fully learn silverlight? I have books on it but it seems by the time you get to Chapter 15 out of 30 chapters you already sort of forgot what you learned and have to start again. Trying to jump right in seems more frustrating since you don't have any idea what the tools at your disposal is or how to construct things.

Answer 1

Visit the silverlight website it has a lot of tutorials and samples.

http://silverlight.net/

Find or make up a small project where you can use it. Try and find a friend or someone you know to help you learn.

The only issue with the books is that some of the content gets out of date quickly because of the quick releases!! :)

If you have played with WPF that will help. But if not the best way is to just get your hands dirty with silverlight as quick as possible..

Silverlight rocks!!

PS. Have a look at Pete Browns Silverlight 4 in Action book published by Manning.

http://www.manning.com/pbrown/

Answer 2

I learned by diving in and building an application, along with a book (Matthew MacDonald, "Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008", ISBN 9781590599495) and lots of googling, watching videos, www.silverlight.net, and some help from Stack Overflow.

But I guess it really depends on how you learn best, and what you want to do with it.

The basics of it come down to knowing XAML, Blend (maybe), and how to build services.

I found it a steep learning curve, but now have a fairly major line of business app in production. I find that it's certainly a lot more productive than trying to build a similar app using browser technologies (HTML/Ajax/jquery, etc.)

Hope that helps...