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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's investigate the following scenario. Our Bookings app is going to be integrated into the company intranet. Depending on the branch of the company, the employee belonging to the intranet will be displayed using different corporate colors. Is there any way for the current page hosting the bookings app to notify the application to change the colors/theme to the current valid corporate colors?

To simulate this, we have added two HTML buttons to the main hosting page. By clicking on these buttons, a JavaScript function will fire a call to a Silverlight method indicating the new set of colors to use (in our case, we will simulate this by changing the background of the menu bar, however, a real app would update the theme being used).

On the Silverlight side, we will go through the following steps:

  1. Define a message to notify a theme change has been requested.

  2. In the MainPage.cs, we will register a method to be called by JavaScript (entry...