Managing Data and Media in Silverlight 4: A Mashup of Chapters from Packt's Bestselling Silverlight Books

I just finish reading the book title above and want to share some insight about this book.First of all, don't mind about the long name of the book considering it is a pick out chapters of 6 different books listed below:1. Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook2. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner's Guide3. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook4. Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration5. Microsoft Silverlight 4: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards6. 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner's GuideThe book clearly show which chapter is from which book at the begging of each chapter. Although the chapters are from 6 different books the content flow pretty well and it has a summary on each chapter and the book have indexes as well.I typically would get a book and only pick out the chapters that I want to read and skim through the rest of the book and this book seem like someone has done the job of picking out for me and put in a nice little book.It is like you pay for 6 books in one price!____[...]

As a Silverlight MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) and book lover I tend to have a lot of Silverlight books if not all of them that were ever published. that being said I'd say that this is one that will last a while on my self before it gets archived to the main library. I think the main reason is that it pulls good material from some of the other titles and puts it all into a more relevant reference material. Where before I would have used only parts of any one of those books virtually the entire book as good material in it that is good to have as a reference. No matter if you are doing Silverlight or Windows Phone or even WPF this book is a great reference and is good to have on the shelf. I know a couple of the PACKT books I've been less pleased about due to editing issues more then anything else but this really is probably the best one yet.