Managing Data and Media in Microsoft Silverlight 4: A mashup of chapters from Packt’s bestselling Silverlight books
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 530 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (February 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849685649
- ISBN-13: 978-1849685641
eBook Description:
Managing Data and Media in Microsoft Silverlight 4: A mashup of chapters from Packt’s bestselling Silverlight books
- A mashup book from expert Silverlight professionals, from 6 Packt donor titles – professional expertise distilled in a true sense starting at just $19.99
- Packed with practical, hands-on examples, illustrating techniques to solve particular data problems effectively within your Silverlight business applications
- Manage data in Silverlight, build and maintain rich dashboards, integrate Sharepoint with Silverlight and more
Manage your data in Silverlight with combined knowledge from Packt’s best selling Silverlight books and ebooks
Managing Data and Media in Microsoft Silverlight 4: A mashup of chapters from Packt’s bestselling Silverlight books focuses on showing .NET developers how to interact with, and handle multiple sources of data in Silverlight business applications, and how to solve particular data problems following a practical hands-on approach, using real-world examples. This book is a collections of media and data based chapters from Packt’s best selling Silverlight books.
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback – features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. However, Silverlight is a great Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. This book will enable .NET developers to get their finger on the pulse of data-driven business applications in Silverlight.
Managing Data and Media in Microsoft Silverlight 4: A mashup of chapters from Packt’s bestselling Silverlight books focuses on showing .NET developers how to interact with, and handle multiple sources of data in Silverlight business applications, and how to solve particular data problems following a practical hands-on approach, using real-world examples. This book is a collections of media and data based chapters from Packt’s best selling Silverlight books.
The book starts with discussion on layouts and content organization and covers all the options available to access data and communicate with services to get the most out of data in your Silverlight business applications, at the same time providing a rich user experience. Understand sophisticated data access techniques in your Silverlight business applications by binding data to Silverlight controls, validating data in Silverlight, getting data from services into Silverlight applications and much more! Discover the tips, tricks and hands on experience to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight from a distinguished team of User Experience and Development authors.
This book contains real-world examples that depict various techniques for interacting with data and services provided by this powerful business collaboration platform, for the enterprise and the Internet. The book ends with an appendix covering 3D Game Development.
What you will learn from this book
- Manage layouts and general content organization
- Know when and how to customize your data in Silverlight using important data controls.
- Build data-driven business applications in Silverlight much more easily and much faster using Data binding
- Add functionality to your Silverlight business applications by harnessing REST and WCF Data Services as an underlying platform for communication via Flickr and Twitter
- Develop Silverlight RIAs that interact with SharePoint 2010 data and services
- Bring life to business applications and complex workflows
- Host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model
- Understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and OData)
Approach
Discover content in various easy-to-follow styles such as a recipe based cookbook format, a turotial based beginner’s guide, and a reference styled handbook. The aim of this book is to provide a lot of valuable content to you from various other Packt Silverlight books. It is designed in such a way that you can refer to topics chapter by chapter, and read them in no particular order. It offers clear examples to successfully perform the most important data related tasks in Silverlight.
Who this book is written for
If you are a .NET developer who wants to manage professional data-driven applications with Sliverlight, then this book is for you. Basic experience of programming Silverlight and familiarity with accessing data using ADO.NET in normal .NET applications is required.
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