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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

Advanced topics


Now that we have covered the basics, let's check some advanced topics that we will come across in live project developments.

Cancelling changes

When working with RIA Services, something of a data island is brought client side. We can work with it and, once we are ready, send it to the server. What happens if we want to cancel changes and start again? For instance, a user is modifying a client file and realizes that they are working on the wrong client, so they want to cancel the changes made. The entities with which we are working implement the IRrevertibleChangeTracking. This interface defines a method named Reject, which restores the affected entity and the associated ones (if applicable) to the original value.

In this case, if changes are to be cancelled, it will only be necessary to implement the following code lines (to see it working, press the button Cancel Changes in the sample application):

// Let us clear the current validation list
CurrentSelectedClient.ValidationErrors...