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I would suggest you port your Chess game to Sliverlight, look into
animations and visual effects to give it an engaging UI.
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This is key! Animations and visual effects--you need to hire a
graphics artist. It's as much work seems to me to do the artwork as
the code.

BTW a lot of people develop for the iPhone etc; it would be
interesting to see what language they are using, and whether you can
use C# on a PC to port to the iPhone or Android or other non-MSFT OS
PC platform.

RL
 
This is key! Animations and visual effects--you need to hire a
graphics artist. It's as much work seems to me to do the artwork as
the code.
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Depending upon what is desired, you might be your own graphic artist.
Although I am not a big fan of the 'Unleashed' texts I did find
"Silverlight 2 Unleashed" to do a pretty good job introducing the
tools and how to use them to create animations and visual effects.
That part of it can be a PIA but the degree of difficulty is not too
high.

regards
A.G.
 
Depending upon what is desired, you might be your own graphic artist.
Although I am not a big fan of the 'Unleashed' texts I did find
"Silverlight 2 Unleashed" to do a pretty good job introducing the
tools and how to use them to create animations and visual effects.
That part of it can be a PIA but the degree of difficulty is not too
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Tx I'll check them out. I'm actually a pretty good graphics artist
(in high school I won some prizes) but it's time consuming to do it
right, unless, like you imply, Silverlight has some nice cut and paste
type tools.

RL
 
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:58 -0800 (PST), RayLopez99
"Silverlight 2 Unleashed" to do a pretty good job introducing the
tools and how to use them to create animations and visual effects.
That part of it can be a PIA but the degree of difficulty is not too
high.
Click to expand...

Well this review says this book sucks...and I'm leary of shelling out
money for these first to market books so maybe I'll pass for now.

RL

Amazon.com

Disappointing - Too basic, for the most part, October 29, 2008 By
whatever (san jose, ca) - See all my reviews

I'm a developer who is intimiately familiar with C# and the .NET
platform in general. I've also been playing with Silverlight 1.1-2
betas/rc's and was hoping that this book would fill in the gaps that
I'd gotten through just playing with it.

But in general, the book seems to be pitched toward a less technical
audience- for example, he spends a paragraph telling us how to comment
out XML, another area explains how to install Expression Blend, page
68 explains to us why we've got F's in our numbers (it's hex, duh),
the diff between raster and vector graphics (this was necessary?)

Chapter -8- finally gets us into some code, and it's JavaScript- but
the whole point of V2 was to get us out of JS and let us use other
langs for more complex apps than just adding Flash-like abilities to
our .NET sites.

Even THEN, we get told that, "JavaScript ... and other C-based
languages are case sensitive!", and apparently (in the next para),
"...JavaScript uses -variables- (text has it in italics) to store
data." Oh my!

Chapter -9- is "Understanding .NET" and finally gets into VStudio.

At page 488, you get 10 pages on calling WCF servers.

If you're a .NET developer with some familiarity with WPF/XAML and a
little WCF, you're probably better off waiting for other books. This
should have really been called something similar to "Beginning
Silverlight 2, mostly with Javascript".

If there were any other reasonable books specifically on 2.0, I'd send
it back, but there aren't yet.
 
Well this review says this book sucks...and I'm leary of shelling out
money for these first to market books so maybe I'll pass for now.
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The review's author had some previous experience with SL which makes
his POV quite valid. Someone with very limited (done a couple demos)
or no SL/WPF experience the text can't be considered too basic. I
found the documentation on how to use Expression Blend most valuable.

- quote clipped from review -
If you're a .NET developer with some familiarity with WPF/XAML and a
little WCF, you're probably better off waiting for other books. This
should have really been called something similar to "Beginning
Silverlight 2, mostly with Javascript".

If there were any other reasonable books specifically on 2.0, I'd send
it back, but there aren't yet.
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All quite true even if 'some' and 'a little' are vague terms. For a
relative beginner the text is a starting point. I believe some WROX
texts on the subject(s) will be published this spring. I couldn't
wait.

regards
A.G.
 
I would suggest you port your Chess game to Sliverlight, look into
animations and visual effects to give it an engaging UI.
Click to expand...
This is key! Animations and visual effects--you need to hire a
graphics artist. It's as much work seems to me to do the artwork as
the code.

BTW a lot of people develop for the iPhone etc; it would be
interesting to see what language they are using, and whether you can
use C# on a PC to port to the iPhone or Android or other non-MSFT OS
PC platform.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Apart from Windows Mobile there is currently no support for .NET languages
on mobile phones. .NET is just to hungry for power.

objective-c is the language of choice for the iPhone and I doubt that'll
change quickly.
 
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