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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

About the Authors

Todd Snyder has been a Software Developer/Architect for over 17 years. During that time, he has spent several years as a Consultant, providing technical guidance and leadership for the development of Enterprise Class Systems on the Microsoft Platform. At Infragistics, he is a principal consultant who focuses on the design and construction of RIA and N-tier based applications. Todd is the co-leader for the New Jersey .NET user group (http://www.njdotnet.net/) and is a frequent speaker at trade shows, code camps, and Firestarters.

Joel Eden, Ph.D. has been working in the area of user experience and design methods for over 10 years. Currently a Senior Interaction Designer working on UX Tools at Infragistics, he previously spent 3 years in the Infragistics UX Services group, consulting for external clients. Prior to Infragistics, he worked at multiple design agencies in the Philadelphia area, as well as working at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Labs. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science, and a PhD in Information Science, both from Drexel University.

Jeff Smith has been a Visual Designer for 6 years. During that time he has been an Art Director at various agencies and studied Special Effects and Animation at NYU. A convert from Flash and Flex, he has been working with .NET technologies for the past 2 years, specializing in WPF and Silverlight. At Infragistics, he is an UX Visual Designer who focuses on the design, implementation, and User Experience. You can view some of his work at http://www.thinksinkstudio.com.

Matt Duffield is the Architect at emGovPower, a leading software provider for managing city and county governments. With over 15 years of working in IT, he enjoys building rich user-centric applications. Matt is very active in the community, speaking at user groups and code camps. He is an INETA speaker member and has been a Microsoft MVP in Client Application Development. He started working in .NET as soon as it was available to the development community and was also an early adopter of both WPF and Silverlight. He believes good business intelligence (BI) architecture is the formula for a successful software package that looks beyond just data and provides insightful information. His blog can be found at http://mattduffield.wordpress.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @mattduffield. Matt currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two sons.