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

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

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Communication between an ASPX page and Silverlight


When adding a Silverlight application to an ASPX page, we can establish different paths for the information flow between them:

  • Parameters in the URL: It is possible to add parameters to the URL both from the ASPX page and the Silverlight application. This is a way to initialize a Silverlight application, since the application goes back to a starting point in every postback.

  • Cookies: As with any website, we can access the browser cookies. This access can be used as a way to authenticate a user in the Silverlight application and for the initial configuration.

  • Session: Instead of transferring the information in the URL, it can be stored in the session of the .NET application. Data is accessed from Silverlight via a call to a web service.

  • Initparams: Use the initparams of the Silverlight Object tag initialization. This can allow us to inject some startup values and collect them when our Silverlight app is instantiated.

As an example, let's see...