Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook : Over 85 Practical Recipes for Creating Rich, Data-Driven Business Applications in Silverlight

Written in a cookbook style, this book offers learning and techniques through recipes. It contains step-by-step instructions for developers who want to build rich data-driven business applications using Silverlight. The book is designed in such a way that you can refer to things chapter by chapter, or read them in no particular order.If you are a .NET developer who wants to build professional data-driven applications with Sliverlight, then this book is for you. Basic experience of programming Silverlight and familiarity with accessing data using ADO.NET in normal .NET applications is required.

Gill Cleeren
Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member, and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect. Since its introduction, Gill has been a .NET enthusiast. For the first several years of his career, he developed ASP.NET applications. The day Silverlight was introduced to the world, back in 2007, he started working with the technology. Since then, he has given many training sessions and developed several applications, both with Silverlight and WPF. As MVP and Regional Director, Gill is also very active in the Belgian and international community as a speaker and user group leader for Visug, the Belgian .NET user group. His blog on .NET, ASP.NET and Silverlight can be found on snowball.be

Kevin Dockx
Kevin Dockx lives in Belgium and works at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies, where he is a technical specialist/project leader on .NET web applications, mainly Silverlight, and a solution manager for Rich Applications (Silverlight, WPF, Surface). His main focus lies on all things Silverlight, but he still keeps an eye on the new developments concerning other products from the Microsoft .NET (Web) Stack. As a Silverlight enthusiast, he's a regular speaker on various national and international events, like Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands or on BESUG events (the Belgian Silverlight User Group). His blog, which contains various tidbits on Silverlight, .NET, and the occasional rambling, can be found at blog.kevindockx.com