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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: Lite Edition - Softcover

 
9781849683845: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: Lite Edition

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Synopsis

17 practical recipes for creating rich, data-driven business applications in Silverlight

  • Design and develop rich data-driven business applications in Silverlight
  • Rapidly interact with and handle multiple sources of data and services within Silverlight business applications
  • Understand sophisticated techniques to work with data in your Silverlight business applications, including displaying data in Silverlight applications, binding data to Silverlight controls, getting data from services into Silverlight applications and much more!
  • Packed with practical, hands-on cookbook recipes, illustrating the techniques to solve particular data problems effectively within your Silverlight business applications
  • In Detail

    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 enables efficient access to your data, allowing you to draw on multiple sources of data and solve particular data problems. This book will enable .NET developers to get their finger on the pulse of data-driven business applications in Silverlight.

    This LITE book is extracted from Packt's full Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook. This short book provides immediately useable recipes for building data-driven applications designed to show you how to interact with and handle multiple sources of data, how to solve particular data problems and how to interact with services. The book specifically focuses on an introduction to data binding and talking to services.

    What you will learn from this book

  • Display data efficiently in Silverlight business applications
  • Build data-driven business applications in Silverlight much more easily and much faster using data binding
  • Discover how your Silverlight business applications can quickly access data residing in a database by calling web services
  • Connect and read from a web service
  • Approach

    This practical, hands-on cookbook is specifically designed for developers who want to build rich data-driven business applications using Silverlight, designed to show you how to interact with and handle multiple sources of data, how to solve particular data problems and how to interact with services. The material has been carefully selected from Packt's fuller Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook.

    Who this book is written for

    If you are a .NET developer who wants to build 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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    About the Author

    Gill Cleeren

    Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member, and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Since its introduction, Gill has been a .NET enthusiast. For the first several years of his career, he developed ASP.NET applications. The day Silverlight was introduced to the world, back in 2007, he started working with the technology. Since then, he has given many training sessions and developed several applications, both with Silverlight and WPF.

    As MVP and Regional Director, Gill is also very active in the Belgian and international community as a speaker and user group leader for Visug, the Belgian .NET user group. His blog on .NET, ASP.NET and Silverlight can be found on www.snowball.be

    Kevin Dockx

    Kevin Dockx lives in Belgium and works at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies, where he is a technical specialist/project leader on .NET web applications, mainly Silverlight, and a solution manager for Rich Applications (Silverlight, WPF, Surface). His main focus lies on all things Silverlight, but he still keeps an eye on the new developments concerning other products from the Microsoft .NET (Web) Stack. As a Silverlight enthusiast, he's a regular speaker on various national and international events, like Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands or on BESUG events (the Belgian Silverlight User Group). His blog, which contains various tidbits on Silverlight, .NET, and the occasional rambling, can be found at blog.kevindockx.com.

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    • PublisherPackt Pub Ltd
    • Publication date2011
    • ISBN 10 1849683840
    • ISBN 13 9781849683845
    • BindingPaperback
    • LanguageEnglish
    • Number of pages116

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