Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

Description

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 will Create 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-12 Getting Started with Silverlight....Pages 13-33 An Introduction to XAML....Pages 35-72 The Navigation Framework....Pages 73-91 Exposing Data from the Server: Using WCF RIA Services....Pages 93-139 Implementing Summary Lists....Pages 141-187 Building Data Entry Forms....Pages 189-243 Securing Your Application....Pages 245-268 Styling Your Application....Pages 269-286 Advanced XAML and Data Binding....Pages 287-329 Creating Custom Controls....Pages 331-371 The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Design Pattern....Pages 373-402 Printing and Reporting....Pages 403-426 Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System....Pages 427-482 Application Deployment....Pages 483-511 Back Matter....Pages 513-552