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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

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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.

Preface

Preface

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Express Introduction to Silverlight

1. Express Introduction to Silverlight

Introduction to Silverlight

Installation

Silverlight architecture

Dragging-and-dropping controls

Interacting with Code-Behind

XAML basic concepts

Basic elements for layout definition

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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2. Forms and Browsing

2. Forms and Browsing

Controls definitions

Creating windows and controls

Creating modal dialogs

Navigation

Creating a sample Navigation Application

Navigation control services

LOB application case study: applying what we have learnt

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3. Data Binding

3. Data Binding

Understanding DataSource

Introducing the ViewModel

Dependency properties

Adding validations

Converters

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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4. Architecture

4. Architecture

Patterns

MVVM pattern

MVVM Light Toolkit

Managed Extensibilty Framework (MEF)

Solution and folder structure

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5. RIA Services Data Access

5. RIA Services Data Access

Accessing data

RIA Services pieces

Creating a Domain Service and consuming it from a Silverlight application

CRUD

Validation

Advanced topics

RIA Services and MVVM

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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6. Out of Browser (OOB) Applications

6. Out of Browser (OOB) Applications

Out of Browser (OOB)

Executing an application in OOB mode

Enhancing the experience—tooling up and updating

Offline work

Breaking the sandbox—trusted applications

In-browser trusted applications

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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7. Testing your LOB Application

7. Testing your LOB Application

Types of testing

Methodologies

Unit testing with Silverlight

Libraries to test Silverlight code

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

Summary

8. Error Control

8. Error Control

Following best practices

Exception handling

Understanding the exception types

Logging

Reporting bugs

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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9. Integration with other Web Applications

9. Integration with other Web Applications

Page architecture

Communication between an ASPX page and Silverlight

Accessing Silverlight from JavaScript

Accessing JavaScript from Silverlight

DOM handling from Silverlight

Interaction between Silverlight and JavaScript

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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10. Consuming Web Services

10. Consuming Web Services

Definitions

Implementing and consuming a WCF service

Consuming a public API web service

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11. Security

11. Security

Client-side security

Server-side and communication security

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

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Index

Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

<StackPanel 
  Grid.Row="2" 
  Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
  <Button Content="New" 
    Width="60" Height="30"/>
  <Button Content="Save" 
    Margin="5,0,0,0" 
    Width="60" Height="30"/>
  <Button Content="Delete" 
    Margin="5,0,0,0" 
    Width="60" Height="30"/>
</StackPanel>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
  <TextBlock Text="Hello World!" FontSize="20"/>
</Grid>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

install-package Moq

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "For Comments textbox to occupy all of the grid width, we add a property called ColSpan".

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