Book Review: Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight
In learning Silverlight, I think that the major hurdle for a .NET developer is to learn and familiarized himself with Expression Blend. In my quest to learn Blend, I recently bought Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight by Victor Gaudioso and published by friends of ED.
First of all, the book was released almost on the same date as Silverlight 3 so I knew that something’s was fishy because writing and publishing a book takes months. Never the less, I gave the book a chance.
The book title is somewhat misleading because there’s not enough focus on Blend itself. It is more like a general Silverlight book targeted at designers wanting to learn a little bit of Blend, a little bit of Visual Studio and a little bit of C#. Keeping that in mind, it gives a quick overview of what it takes to develop with the Silverlight platform.
And the Silverlight 3 content? It is just obvious that the book was written when the technology was in early Beta. That content seems to be have been rushed and inserted at the last minute.
Is it a bad book? Not at all but if you want to focus mostly on Blend, you’ll have to look elsewhere.