Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

by Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author)

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Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform in which to build business applications. It's a very powerful technology, and de...more Silverlight 4 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform in which to build business applications. It's a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it's moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread adoption.

This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between.

In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and introduce the patterns to use, the issues that you'll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoid them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book.

With this book in hand, you willCreate a fully functional business application in Silverlight Discover how to satisfy all of the general requirements that most business applications need Develop a business application framework What you'll learn How to structure your project to ensure a robust and maintainable application How to create user interfaces with XAML and bind controls to data How to communicate securely between the server and the client How to view and maintain data within a Silverlight user interface How to design unique user experiences and use advanced styling techniques How to implement standard business application paradigms in Silverlight Who this book is for

This book is for developers experienced in other .NET technologies, such as WinForms or ASP.NET, looking to translate their existing skills to developing business applications with Silverlight. Patterns and methodologies associated with building robust applications will be introduced and are not prerequisite knowledge. Table of Contents Introduction Getting Started with Silverlight An Introduction to XAML The Navigation Framework Exposing Data from the Server: Using WCF RIA Services Implementing Summary Lists Building Data Entry Forms Securing Your Application Styling Your Application Advanced XAML and Data Binding Creating Custom Controls The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Design Pattern Printing and Reporting Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System Application Deployment(less)

Paperback, 576 pages

Published August 25th 2010 by Apress (first published January 1st 2010)

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Feb 05, 2012 Nishant Rana rated it 5 of 5 stars

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It is surely one of the best book on business application development with Silverlight.
It starts with basics of Silverlight and XAML.
Then it gradually covers the important topics like Navigation Framework, WCF RIA Services, MVVM, OOB Mode etc.
It covers almost every aspect of developing a business application.
I don't think there exist any other book that explains this topic in such great detail.
I will highly recommend this book.

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Jun 08, 2011 Mohammad Elsheimy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dotnet, programming, web-dev, silverlight

Should have devoted more for the MVVM patterns and frameworks instead of the discussion of .NET basics (e.g. file IO.)

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Chris Anderson was named in April 2007 to the "Time 100," the newsmagazine's list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001, and he has led the magazine to six National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2005 and 2007. He is the aut...more

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