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Packt (5-2010) | PDF | 476 pages | 1847199844 | 5.1Mb

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook /by Gill Cleeren (Author), Kevin Dockx (Author) .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 (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. Silverlight Data Services enable efficient access to your data, allowing you to draw on multiple sources of data and solve particular data problems. There is very little existing material that demonstrates how to build data-driven solutions with the platform. Silverlight 3 made a big step into Line-Of-Business data services and Silverlight 4 builds further upon this. This book will enable .NET developers to get their finger on the pulse of data-driven business applications in Silverlight.
This book is not a general Silverlight 3/4 overview book; it is uniquely aimed at developers who want to build data-driven applications. It 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 recipes. It is a practical cookbook that teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight that draw on multiple sources of data. Most of the covered features work both in Silverlight 3 and 4. However, we cover some that are specific for Silverlight 4, which will therefore not work with Silverlight 3. Where this is the case, it is clearly indicated.What you will learn from this book
* Display and validate data efficiently in Silverlight business applications
* Build data-driven business applications in Silverlight much more easily and much faster using Data binding
* Know when and how to customize your data using important data controls within Silverlight
* Discover how your Silverlight business applications can quickly access data residing in a database by calling web services such as RSS, JSON, Windows Azure, and more
* Exchange information between Silverlight clients and WCF or ASMX services in your Silverlight business applications
* Add functionality to your Silverlight business applications by harnessing REST and WCF Data Services as an underlying platform for communication via Flickr and Twitter
* Simplify your data-driven business application development with WCF RIA Services
* Leverage your existing knowledge, applications, and business requirements of Silverlight by Integrating Silverlight into existing business applications

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