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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

By : Braulio Diez, Jose Fernando Almoguera, Pablo NAVARRO CASTILLO, Sebastian Stehle, Rocio Serrano, Reyes Garcia Rosado
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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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By: Braulio Diez, Jose Fernando Almoguera, Pablo NAVARRO CASTILLO, Sebastian Stehle, Rocio Serrano, Reyes Garcia Rosado

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.
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Converters

Most of the time, when data is shown to the user, there are aspects or values, which are not clear or intuitive enough for them. A way to solve this problem is by changing the format or making a conversion before binding. To do so, Silverlight offers an interface which allows us to perform this action.

Note

If you need to make simple formatting (for example, displaying a Date or Time), StringFormat can be directly used on the XAML (this was introduced in Silverlight 4). For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/jMBtDp.

IValueConverter

When this interface is implemented, we obtain the following functions:

  • Convert: This function prepares the data, obtained from the DataSource, to display it in the view.
  • ConvertBack: This one is in charge of making the opposite change, it gets the data ready from the view to store in the source.

We will generate an instance to convert the numerical value provided by a property, to an image. The final result will appear similar to the following screenshot...

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