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Becoming a Silverlight Programmer
From: More Signal, Less Noise - 11/18/2008
I received a wonderful and very kind email from saleh alabbas who asked this canonical question: "imagine you have good knowledge in C#, what plan you would draw for yourself to become an expert in developing web and Silverlight applications?"
I'm asked this so often, in so many ways, I thought I'd devote a quick column to trying to answer this unanswerable questions (or rather, this question with so many answers!)
One question is how you like to learn. Some folks do best with classes; they like to have an instructor walk them through material and they enjoy (need?) the interaction. Other folks would much rather read a book and still others find a video to be a good compromise. Some folks like to tinker and go to documentation only after burning a hole in the counter, others won't touch the keyboard until the entire program is designed on paper.
With all of that in mind, here would be my plan of action. I'd start by installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (or, if I couldn't afford to do that, Visual Web Developer). I'd then go to the Get Started page on Silverlight.net and download and install the Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I'd also download and install Expression Blend 2 and the Blend 2 Service Pack 1 and the Silverlight Toolkit (that is, numbers 1, 2 and 4 in the Get Started Box)
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