I'm going on an extended road-trip, and I plan on bringing a laptop. I was thinking of downloading a bunch of the Silverlight articles at silverlight.net/learn (I'm not a videos guy) I'm comfortable with /(?:Iron)?Python|Ruby|C#/. I'm not looking for .NET or language intros. I'd like sources that get down-and-dirty with DLR and Silverlight behavior.
I'm looking for firsthand reviews of the quality of the tutorial/quickstart/lab articles versus a Book, as well as book recommendations.
The only good book I've found on Silverlight is the Silverlight 2 Bible, which I purchased just for the "how to do events and codebehind section". The book is ok, but likely just for my library.
I would love for there to be more developer heavy Silverlight 2 books out there.
I recently bought Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2 (by Laurence Moroney and from Microsoft Press) and so far I'm liking it, it has examples and it doesn't focus on the .net basics, which is what you want. I'm a .net programmer and also wanted to get an introduction to Silverlight, this book seems to be good for that. And it was only about $25!
Also, it's not a big bulky book, which is the kind of books that I like, small quick and dirty, if I need more details then I can go get another book (or stackoverflow it), instead of having one huge brick that tries to teach me everything and anything possible there is.
I had a similar question posted, so feel free to check out those answers.