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Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards

By : Todd Snyder, Joel Eden, PhD, Jeffrey Smith, Matthew Duffield
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Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards

By: Todd Snyder, Joel Eden, PhD, Jeffrey Smith, Matthew Duffield

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business.<br /><br />Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight. <br /><br />This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards

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First published: January 2012

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