Packt Publishing, the folks who published our Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development book have included some of the chapters of that book in a new mashup of their best selling Silverlight books. The new book is called Managing Media and Data in Microsoft Silverlight 4 and features great chapters from several different authors’ Silverlight books, covering the gambit from XAML and layouts to SharePoint integration to REST and RIA services.

In addition, they are also offering a discount on all Microsoft technology books during the month of May so be sure to check that out as well at Packt’s Microsoft Carnival!

Silverlight is still a great technology for business development, it eases deployment issues with distributed software, provides an interactive experience for users via a browser while maintaining the power of C# in the development life cycle.

Mine and Frank's book Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner's Guide will be part of a promotion at Packt starting September 21st and running until September 30th. You can get 20% off the print copy and 30% off the e-book copy during this time!

Visit Packt's website for more details.

A sample chapter for Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide has posted a sample chapter online. Be sure to check it out, this will give a good idea of the flow of the book and how we get right down to details attempting to solve a real world problem.

You can purchase the book from the publisher and it is also available on Amazon.