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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5 (Paperback, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R1,693
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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Chris Anderson

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Silverlight5 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform on which to build business applications. It's a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it's moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread popularity. This book guides you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight5 and C#. You'll learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applicationsfrom getting started to deployment, and everything in between. In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications. It willintroducethe patternsyou'll use, the issues you'll face, and how to resolve them. Author Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his expertise through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoiding them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book. With this book in hand, you will: Create a fully-functional business application in Silverlight Discover how to satisfy the general requirements that most business applications need Develop a business application framework What you'll learn How to structure your project to ensure a robust and maintainable application How to create user interfaces with XAML and bind controls to data How to communicate securely between the server and the client How to view and maintain data within a Silverlight user interface How to design unique user experiences and use advanced styling techniques How to implement standard business application paradigms in Silverlight Who this book is for

This book is for developers experienced in other .NET technologies, such as WinForms or ASP.NET, looking to translate their existing skills to developing business applications with Silverlight. Patterns and methodologies associated with building robust applications will be introduced and are not prerequisite knowledge. Table of Contents Getting Started with Silverlight An Introduction to XAML The Navigation Framework Exposing Data from the Server Consuming Data from the Server Implementing Summary Lists Building Data Entry Forms Securing Your Application Styling Your Application Advanced XAML Advanced Data Binding Creating Custom Controls The Model-View-View Model (MVVM) Design Pattern An Introduction to Prism and MEF Printing and Reporting Out of Browser Mode and Interacting with the Operating System Application Deployment

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Imprint: Apress
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: February 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Chris Anderson
Dimensions: 235 x 191 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 670
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-3500-2
Categories: Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General
Books > Computing & IT > Internet > Internet languages > General
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LSN: 1-4302-3500-4
Barcode: 9781430235002

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