As a book author for Silverlight, believe me it's hard! Unfortunately I don't have inside information either - so I'm left guessing as much as everyone else with when and what is coming. Originally my book (Professional Business Applications in Silverlight for Apress) was due in December (for Silverlight 3), then it needed to be done by September to be viable. It takes several months (about 3-4) from submission to be on shelves, making it nearly impossible with these rapid release cycles. As a developer I love the constant feature additions and rapid growth of Silverlight, but as an author it's nigh on impossible.
PS. I just looked at the top book from the picture you provided, and the top one is mine. But it's not coming in that form (surprised it's still there) - there will be a Silverlight 4 version though (if I can write it in time before Silverlight 5 is announced!). Unfortunately about 15,000 words (plus lots of code) of what I had written has now become redundant with the Silverlight 4 features announced. I have to admit that really stings - all that work to be scrapped. Chris Anderson 2009/11/23 Craig Dunn <craig.d...@conceptdevelopment.net> > >>I can't help but feel overwealmed with their release cycles. :) > > Imagine if you were a book author! SL4 could be out before these SL3 books > reach the shelves... > > http://twitpic.com/q21be > > cd > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Stephen Price > <step...@littlevoices.com>wrote: > >> Is anyone playing with the Silverlight 4.0 beta? >> How come everyone here is so quiet about it? I'm on semi holidays in >> Canberra and missed the announcement. Thought I would have seen some >> discussion on it here tho. >> >> Shame on you. :p >> >> In particular, this new feature has caught my eye... "The .NET Common >> Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop >> and Silverlight without change." >> >> If I read that correctly then I should be able to do normal unit testing >> (ie using normal test runners such as Resharper, nUnit, TestDriven.net etc). >> Can anyone confirm that? >> >> Some pretty cool new features. I can't help but feel overwealmed with >> their release cycles. :) >> >> cheers, >> Stephen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozsilverlight mailing list >> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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