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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

In-browser trusted applications


Having trusted applications, which are executed as if they were desktop applications, is a powerful and interesting idea, but what happens if we need to have elevated permissions for applications running in the browser? For instance, a bank's intranet.

Silverlight 5 incorporates in-browser trusted applications, whose main features are as follows:

  • It is a specific functionality for enterprise applications.

  • The administrator controls which applications can be executed via group policy.

  • The user is not asked and neither is the application installed. It is marked as valid, so it will be executed by the administrator.

  • It can be integrated as part of an HTML website, without the need to give elevated permissions to the entire site.

On the other hand, the doubt arises, when developing, shall we create our own test certificate? The answer is no. If we execute from localhost, the restriction is not applied.

Thus, in the example that was previously implemented (getting the...