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

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

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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)
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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Creating a sample Navigation Application


Now that we have identified the main points of the Navigation Framework, we will begin by creating a sample from the beginning.

We will create an application which makes use of the Silverlight Navigation functionality, showing how we can control the navigation status when it begins or ends. Also, we will learn how to pass parameters via URI.

  1. To create a new project, go to New Project and choose a Silverlight Navigation Application project.

  2. Give the project a name and click Ok.

  3. Later, we will be asked if we want to create a project for hosting the Silverlight application. For convenience, choose to create an ASP.NET Web Application project.

  4. After clicking OK, Visual Studio applies the Template associated with this kind of project. It generates a structure depending on the solution to locate an area for page definition at first sight, as shown in the following screenshot.

    • Main Page: If we observe it, we can see that it has created a main page (MainPage.XAML...

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