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

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Express Introduction to Silverlight

Introduction to Silverlight

Installation

Silverlight architecture

Dragging-and-dropping controls

Interacting with Code-Behind

XAML basic concepts

Basic elements for layout definition

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Chapter 2. Forms and Browsing

Controls definitions

Creating windows and controls

Creating modal dialogs

Navigation

Creating a sample Navigation Application

Navigation control services

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Chapter 3. Data Binding

Understanding DataSource

Introducing the ViewModel

Dependency properties

Adding validations

Converters

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Chapter 4. Architecture

Patterns

MVVM pattern

MVVM Light Toolkit

Managed Extensibilty Framework (MEF)

Solution and folder structure

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Chapter 5. RIA Services Data Access

Accessing data

RIA Services pieces

Creating a Domain Service and consuming it from a Silverlight application

CRUD

Validation

Advanced topics

RIA Services and MVVM

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Chapter 6. Out of Browser (OOB) Applications

Out of Browser (OOB)

Executing an application in OOB mode

Enhancing the experience—tooling up and updating

Offline work

Breaking the sandbox—trusted applications

In-browser trusted applications

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Chapter 7. Testing your LOB Application

Types of testing

Methodologies

Unit testing with Silverlight

Libraries to test Silverlight code

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Chapter 8. Error Control

Following best practices

Exception handling

Understanding the exception types

Logging

Reporting bugs

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Chapter 9. Integration with other Web Applications

Page architecture

Communication between an ASPX page and Silverlight

Accessing Silverlight from JavaScript

Accessing JavaScript from Silverlight

DOM handling from Silverlight

Interaction between Silverlight and JavaScript

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Chapter 10. Consuming Web Services

Definitions

Implementing and consuming a WCF service

Consuming a public API web service

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