Alas I find my self doing another book review... its not clear to me that I should continue to do that but on this particular book it heads in the right direction. As noted in an earlier post I find the idea of a cook book to be of particular interest and useful in my work with Silverlight. This book has gotten closer then any other to date in building the ideal Silverlight book. Albeit the book does make an attempt to teach Silverlight to some degree but it tends to be more of a reference book, the down side is that there is more in the book about teaching and less about more esoteric topics not connected to data. Certainly though for the professional Silverlight developer this is a great addition to your library.

http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-data-and-services-cookbook/book/mid/130510v8s5cu?utm_source=hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_003316

I normally don't do book reviews here but this book is kind of cool and what I'm looking for. Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, here is a book that is kind of not so much on the UX side but what stands out about this book is the fact that it is more pictures and code then text especially when compared to a regular book. For me in particular this is awesome as Im more into pictures and code samples. Much like a recipe book this kind of thing is right up my ally so I can focus on making the applications User eXperience cool. That being the case I would recommend it. On the downside the book is from a publisher I haven’t not heard up and the technical editors are more well known in the authors but once getting past that its a good resource to have. You can download a sample chapter here:

http://www.HackingSilverlight.net/Downloads/9843_SampleChapter.pdf

and purchase the book on their site:

http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-business-application-development-beginners-guide/book/mid/100510ricjw6?utm_source=hackingsilverlight.blogspot.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=mdb_003266

some of the samples will also show up the the HackingSilverlight Code Browser:

http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/HackingSilverlightBrowser.html