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Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook

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About 2 years ago, in the spring of 2010, Microsoft released Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 proved to be a platform ready for Line-of-Business application development. Numerous developers learned how to build great apps with it, which can run both within the browser and as a stand-alone application on the user's machine. Silverlight 5 was the logical successor and extended the platform again with an extensive list of new features.

Soon after the launch of the Silverlight 4, the first edition of this book was released. Its success convinced us to write an updated version that focuses on Silverlight 5. While all existing content is updated to match the new version, a lot of new content is added. This can be found in recipes covering Silverlight 5-specific features as well as complete new chapters, covering other aspects of working with data such as MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) or even from Windows Phone 7.

In this practical cookbook, you'll learn how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight that draw on multiple sources of data. Although the book focuses on Silverlight 5, many of the recipes will work on Silverlight 4 projects as well. A large number will also work in Silverlight 3. This is indicated for each recipe.

Packed with reusable, real-world recipes, the book begins by introducing you to general principles for programming Silverlight. It then dives deep into the world of data services, covering all the options available to access data and communicate with services to make the most out of data in your Silverlight business applications, whilst at the same time providing a rich user experience. Chapters cover data binding, data controls, concepts of talking to services, communicating with WCF, ASMX, REST services, and much more. The chapter on accessing data and services from Windows Phone 7 applications discusses how to leverage your knowledge on the mobile platform.

By following the practical recipes in this book, which are of varying difficulty levels, you will learn concepts for creating data-rich business applications—from the creation of a Silverlight application, to displaying data in the Silverlight application and upgrading your existing applications to use Silverlight. Each recipe will cover a data services topic, starting from the description of the problem, covering a conceptual solution and a solution containing sample code.
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