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Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation
Publisher: friends of ED - August 27, 2009 ISBN-10: 143022407X, ISBN-13: 9781430224075
Author: Jeff Paries
480 pages
Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation - book reviews: 12
Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, using trigonometry and vector movement before moving on to more advanced topics such as physics modeling and particle systems.
With full code examples for all types of animation and interaction, this is an invaluable resource for both Silverlight beginners and more advanced users.
- Fully updated for Silverlight 3
- See the power of Silverlight in action
- Learn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2
What you'll learn
- Learn how to create procedural (code-based) animation in Silverlight
- Utilize trigonometry and vectors to create motion
- Create animated text and image effects such as blurs and drop shadows
- Add physics effects, such as gravity
- Experiment with kinematics to create walk cycles
- Play with particle systems to create simple explosions
Who is this book for?
Anybody interested in Silverlight can pick up this book and be productive. Similarly, those with some web development experience looking to add Silverlight applications to their site can be productive. More advanced users can extract the concepts presented and apply them in their own applications as well.
A very thorough coverage of animation using Sliverlight
This is by far the best book that I have found on Silverlight PERIOD.
It is beautifully written and illustrated with hundreds of useful examples from which the reader can diverge. It starts off very simply and adds one concept at a time so that the reader can easily follow along. It goes far beyond the animations that I hoped it would do and yet remains clearly comprehensible so that I am quickly able to add my own concepts to any example.
I especially liked the extensive use of C# code behind which permits a much better user interaction.
User interactive animation is, after all, what Silverlight is all about and this book will make it possible for a lot more web authors.
I really can't do the book justice in this small space. So I will just say that I was totally amazed when I first saw it and I become more delighted with it every time I read another example.
jp sousa
07 February, 2010
Not bad, could be better
On the whole this book is okay. One thing that was disappointing is that the code downloads that accompany the book do not download properly making them unusable. Tried to use the email address provided on the download website to communicate this issue, email address bounced back. For anyone that has worked with Silverlight, alot of XAML code is generated quickly. Spent a lot of time working the exercises by writing my own code to duplicate what the author was trying to show in each chapter;(you obviously need some Silverlight experience to do this which I have) not a bad way to learn but takes a lot of time and the downloads would have been useful. I would still recommend getting this book if you have any interest in Silverlight Animation apart from the downloads it is well written and the author knows his material.
Jon in Florida
13 April, 2010
SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION
As the title suggests, this book deals exclusively with animations in 2D, although Chapter 7 details techniques for 3D simulation.
The book starts off, after an introduction about "What You Need to Know", with a number of examples on basic transforms and moves on to storyboards and animations. Then follows chapters on animation techniques, coordinates in Silverlight and using trigonometry. Towards the end there are two very good chapters on Collisions and Particle Systems.
Every chapter has a set of projects for the reader to complete, together with completed projects.
However, what makes this book outstanding (for me) is in the two chapters on Forward and Inverse Kinematics and Silverlight Virtual Reality Objects. The numerous possibilities for applications in real-world advertisements are immediately obvious and very attractive: from making a chain bracelet or necklace "come alive" to demonstrating how gantry cranes work are but two examples from many possibilities. The VR objects are perfect for all-round views of anything that needs to be seen from various points: cars, garden furniture, anything.
Everything in this book is useful in some way and the total collection of project examples is outstanding. Doubtless, there will be useful books, still to be published, on the other aspects of Silverlight: business applications; layouts; videos, but this book does exactly what the title claims: form a Foundation for Silverlight 3 Animation, and in a way that leaves little for improvement on its examples.
John P. F. Oconnor
26 September, 2009
Great book, author's help greatly appreciated.
Initially had a problem downloading the code examples from the suggested site in the book and gave my first review of 3 stars total. The author saw my review, contacted me and resolved the download issue which was pretty amazing and gracious of him. Seems the dowload problem had to do with 32 bit versus 64 bit operating systems. I am using Win7 64 bit. The author sent a new link to download the code examples from which I did and they all worked perfectly. Outstanding service, thank you Jeff!
The book itself is well worth the time and investment to anyone interested in Silverlight Animation. Very thorough and well written. Out of the four Silverlight books I own this is one of my favorites. Highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Silverlight Animation or just Silverlight in general. The author Jeff Paries knows his material and the book is well written. Thanks again for the download help.
Jon in Florida
13 April, 2010
A very thorough coverage of animation using Sliverlight
This is by far the best book that I have found on Silverlight PERIOD.
It is beautifully written and illustrated with hundreds of useful examples from which the reader can diverge. It starts off very simply and adds one concept at a time so that the reader can easily follow along. It goes far beyond the animations that I hoped it would do and yet remains clearly comprehensible so that I am quickly able to add my own concepts to any example.
I especially liked the extensive use of C# code behind which permits a much better user interaction.
User interactive animation is, after all, what Silverlight is all about and this book will make it possible for a lot more web authors.
I really can't do the book justice in this small space. So I will just say that I was totally amazed when I first saw it and I become more delighted with it every time I read another example.
jp sousa
07 February, 2010
