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

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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
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Credits
Foreword
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Foreword
About the Authors
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About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Express Introduction to Silverlight
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Express Introduction to Silverlight
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Introduction to Silverlight
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Installation
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Silverlight architecture
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Dragging-and-dropping controls
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Interacting with Code-Behind
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XAML basic concepts
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Basic elements for layout definition
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LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
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Summary
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Forms and Browsing
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Forms and Browsing
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Controls definitions
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Creating windows and controls
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Creating modal dialogs
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Navigation
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Creating a sample Navigation Application
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Navigation control services
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Summary
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Data Binding
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Data Binding
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Understanding DataSource
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Introducing the ViewModel
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Dependency properties
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Adding validations
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Converters
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Architecture
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Architecture
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Patterns
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MVVM pattern
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MVVM Light Toolkit
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Managed Extensibilty Framework (MEF)
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Solution and folder structure
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RIA Services Data Access
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RIA Services Data Access
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Accessing data
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RIA Services pieces
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Creating a Domain Service and consuming it from a Silverlight application
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CRUD
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Validation
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Advanced topics
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RIA Services and MVVM
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Out of Browser (OOB) Applications
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Out of Browser (OOB) Applications
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Out of Browser (OOB)
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Executing an application in OOB mode
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Enhancing the experience—tooling up and updating
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Offline work
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Breaking the sandbox—trusted applications
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In-browser trusted applications
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Testing your LOB Application
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Testing your LOB Application
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Types of testing
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Methodologies
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Unit testing with Silverlight
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Libraries to test Silverlight code
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Error Control
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Error Control
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Following best practices
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Exception handling
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Understanding the exception types
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Logging
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Reporting bugs
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Integration with other Web Applications
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Integration with other Web Applications
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Page architecture
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Communication between an ASPX page and Silverlight
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Accessing Silverlight from JavaScript
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Accessing JavaScript from Silverlight
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DOM handling from Silverlight
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Interaction between Silverlight and JavaScript
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Consuming Web Services
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Consuming Web Services
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Definitions
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Implementing and consuming a WCF service
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Consuming a public API web service
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Security
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Security
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Client-side security
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Server-side and communication security
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Index
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Index

Chapter 3. Data Binding

The concept of Data Binding is not something new in the development of LOB applications, and can be defined as the action of tying data to the interface.

Another way to understand data binding is the way in which data is presented to the user, as well as how they interact with that data. The key concept to understand here is how data is presented to the user once it has been obtained. Similarly, we can apply it the other way around. That is, once the user has established the data, we can decide how to store that data in our entities. In this process, we can differentiate two objects, first, the object that defines the link and second, the object Data.

As an illustration, we can mention the typical Recordset, which probably sounds familiar to many users and may throw some light on the subject. We can say that data binding in Silverlight is a recordset, but with a firewall between the application and the database, since the connection between both is not a direct one...

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