Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in like
Flash that delivers rich interactive applications for the Web.
Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports a number
of different programming languages and techniques (making it
cross-platform) and all major browsers (cross-browser support). This
book will leverage our existing success in the ASP.NET market and our
investment in several Silverlight 1.1 titles. These titles were brought
to market immediately surrounding the actual Silverlight 1.1 RTM to
target developers interested in practical, ready-to-use code pieces.
Readers enjoy these "cut-and-paste" ready solutions that give them lots
of bang for their buck. Additionally, there doesn't appear to be a
competitive recipe-style book announced as of this writing.