Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

• Main Author: Anderson, Chris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

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 wh...

Table of Contents:

• Getting Started with Silverlight
• An Introduction to XAML
• The Navigation Framework
• Exposing Data from the Server: Using WCF RIA Services
• Implementing Summary Lists
• Building Data Entry Forms
• Securing Your Application
• Styling Your Application
• Advanced XAML and Data Binding
• Creating Custom Controls
• The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Design Pattern
• Printing and Reporting
• Out of Browser Mode, and Interacting with the Operating System
• Application Deployment.