Books to Learn Silverlight
A question came through the PADNUG mailing-list asking about good beginner Silverlight books. I've included my response below.
You really owe it to yourself to take a hard look at the book Pete Brown is currently working on (http://www.manning.com/pbrown/). Today at PDC he announced this book would be modified to cover Silverlight 4. His book will officially be released roughly during the same time that Silverlight 4 goes RTM. What’s great about the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) is that if you purchase it now you can read the chapters as they come online and watch as they are revised. Take a look at the table of contents. Today on Channel 9 Pete promised that the next drop of his updated chapters would be sometime next week. If there was only one book I could recommend, it would be this one. You simply cannot get a better author.
I don't work for Manning and I don't get any kickbacks from Pete. I stand by the statement that I believe Pete is the best author for this topic (learning Silverlight/MVVM and starting from nothing). Hopefully I didn't offend anyone with that statement. If so, please feel free to send me a copy of your "better" book. I'd be happy to read it and be proven wrong.
