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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned a lot about error control. Do the best you can to write an application that is very stable. The previous chapter about Architecture and Unit Testing can help you to design your system for changing requirements and to test it using automated tests.

For all situations out of your control, you now have the tools to get the best out of it. Try to avoid these situations and design a nice dialog with some details about the exception to give your customers and users the feeling that this will be fixed soon.

Additional resources

There are a lot of free materials about error handling on the Web, especially discussions about clean code, in blogs of members of the .NET community. It is well worth reading them, but it is most important to go through your code and to think about what can go wrong and how you can improve it. The materials that are most important in this process are as follows: