Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-12

3. Getting Started with Silverlight

   Pages 13-33

4. An Introduction to XAML

   Pages 35-72

5. The Navigation Framework

   Pages 73-91

6. Exposing Data from the Server: Using WCF RIA Services

   Pages 93-139

7. Implementing Summary Lists

   Pages 141-187

8. Building Data Entry Forms

   Pages 189-243

9. Securing Your Application

   Pages 245-268

10. Styling Your Application

    Pages 269-286

11. Advanced XAML and Data Binding

    Pages 287-329

12. Creating Custom Controls

    Pages 331-371

13. The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Design Pattern

    Pages 373-402

14. Printing and Reporting

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15. Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System

    Pages 427-482

16. Application Deployment

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17. Back Matter

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Silverlight 4 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 in 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 adoption.

This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between.

In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and introduce the patterns to use, the issues that you’ll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoid 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 all of the general requirements that most business applications need
• Develop a business application framework

• .NET
• C#
• Microsoft Silverlight 4
• Rich Internet Application
• Silverlight
• Silverlight 3
• XAML
• browser
• control
• deployment
• framework
• navigation
• optimization
• search engine optimization (SEO)
• technology

Chris Anderson has been a professional developer for more than 10 years, specializing in building desktop, web, and mobile business applications using Microsoft technologies for industries as wide-ranging as accounting, property valuation, mining, the fresh produce industry, pet cremations, logistics, field services, sales, and construction. Now running his own business, he has turned to Silverlight as the ideal new technology for developing and deploying business applications. Chris currently resides in Sydney, Australia.

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