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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications. "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice. Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.With "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned


Let us apply what we have learned thanks to our sample application. To do so, we will first build the adequate structure for the project and then implement the MVVM pattern on it. Instead of just sticking to the structure, the first page of the application (MyBookings) has been implemented by using a mock data module. In the next chapter, the real RIA Services layer will substitute for the layer mentioned previously.

We have made some changes (refactoring) to adapt to the defined pattern and the structures. Some of the changes are as follows:

  • Changes in the structure of the solution (which reflects full names, introduces solution folders, and so on)

  • A new library has been introduced to adapt Silverlight navigation framework to the MVVM pattern (navigation now becomes ViewModel's responsibility)

  • Floor and room administration windows have been unified in order to take advantage of and show how to edit inline in a DataGrid

Project structure...