Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4, 9781430272076 (1430272074), Apress, 2010

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 relative 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 tackle the issues that you'll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to approach real-life implementation decisions.

With this book in hand, you will

Create a fully functional business application in Silverlight
Discover how to satisfy all of the common requirements that most business applications share

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 implement standard business application paradigms in Silverlight

Who is this book 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Getting Started with Sliverlight
An Introduction to XAML
The Navigation Framework
Exposing Data From The Server
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
Reporting and Printing
Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System
Application Deployment

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