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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

Logging


We are able to catch all exceptions and handle them, if possible. Sometimes it is not possible to deal with all scenarios and therefore, we must introduce a logging mechanism to our application in order to collect information that can help to fix a bug.

Logging is more complicated in Silverlight than in a normal client or web application:

  • We cannot write to files directly

  • The isolated storage has only limited space, but we can ask the user for more

  • The application is running client side, the connection to a logging server can fail, or the server might not be available

  • The logging information must be persistent

  • Only a few frameworks for logging exist that also work together with Silverlight

At the moment, there is only one open source library for logging, which is the Silverlight port of the Enterprise Application Framework.

Enterprise application framework

The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers...