New Packt title: Silverlight 4 bestselling books mash-up

Packt Publishing, the publisher that also publishes my Silverlight 4 (and upcoming Silverlight 5) book, just released a new title: Managing Data and Media in Microsoft Silverlight 4.  This is mash-up of chapters from Packt’s bestelling Silverlight books, including a few chapters from my Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook.

Some of the content:

• Manage layouts and general content organization
• Know when and how to customize your data in Silverlight using important data controls.
• Build data-driven business applications in Silverlight much more easily and much faster using Data binding
• Add functionality to your Silverlight business applications by harnessing REST and WCF Data Services as an underlying platform for communication via Flickr and Twitter
• Develop Silverlight RIAs that interact with SharePoint 2010 data and services
• Bring life to business applications and complex workflows
• Host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model
• Understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and OData)

So, if you’re looking for a Silverlight 4 book with a variety of content concerning data & media, you might want to check it out!