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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

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned


We will pick up the project from where we left in the previous chapter, in order to give it controls. We can generate a copy if we want to keep it as we left it for further revisions.

We will continue working upon the Management page. Our goal will be to load the grid with the floors of the selected building and also load the grill that shows each floor's rooms. These two grids will be bound in a master/detail relationship. On the other hand, we can add, modify, and delete rooms through the modal dialog we have, in order to do so.

First of all, we will see the new elements added to the Visual Studio solution.

As you can see from the previous screenshot, two Entity classes have been added to model the Management page, as well as a ViewModel class in charge of providing data, managing actions on the interface, and storing the data for the management page.

Entity classes

We need to create two classes to define our data model, one to define...