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Build Highly Usable, High-Performance Business Applications with Silverlight 5   Microsoft Silverlight MVP and Wintellect Consultant Jeremy Likness gives you all the hands-on guidance and proven  patterns and practices you need to build scalable, maintainable, and highly professional applications for multiple platforms  and browsers. In this first complete guide to designing Silverlight applications for commercial use, Likness focuses on  the advanced Silverlight features most directly related to solving real-world business problems and demonstrates how  these features fit together in production-quality applications.   Written from the ground up, this book covers every key area of enterprise Silverlight development. For each, Likness  introduces the opportunities and capabilities Silverlight provides, offers relevant case studies from actual projects,  presents complete C# code samples, and explains them in detail. Every chapter concludes with a summary highlighting  the specific information and techniques most important for developers to consider.   Coverage includes •    Discovering why Silverlight is superior to HTML5/JavaScript for most line-of-business applications •    Leveraging Silverlight 5’s powerful enhancements to performance, text, printing, usability, security, and programmability •    Effectively applying Silverlight’s application cycle in enterprise applications •    Using XAML to drive Silverlight’s visual interface •    Quickly transforming raw data into visually appealing information •    Using Silverlight’s innovative Visual State Manager and data binding to separate design, UI/UX experience,  and business logic •    Simplifying development with the MVVM pattern •    Using MEF to integrate modular code into highly extensible, maintainable, and testable Silverlight applications •    Improving and automating testing with Silverlight Unit Testing Framework and third-party add-ons •    Mastering each leading approach to navigation and implementing the best one for your application •    Implementing the service layer, persistence, and state management •    Building advanced “out-of-browser” applications •    Integrating sophisticated line-of-business features into your solutions •    Optimizing the performance of your Silverlight applications   This book will be invaluable for all experienced client developers who use Microsoft’s  technology stack and want to leverage Silverlight’s immense power; and for every Silverlight  developer seeking to improve existing line-of-business applications with the new Silverlight 5.

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Author:   Jeremy Likness
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:  

9780321810410

ISBN 10:   0321810414
Pages:   720
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword     xviii Preface     xx Acknowledgments     xxx About the Author     xxxii Chapter 1 Silverlight     1 The Common Language Runtime (CLR)     1 The Base Class Library (BCL)     2 The Presentation Core     3 The Presentation Framework     3 Communications     4 Data     4 Key Differences from the Full CLR     5 Silverlight First     6 WPF and Silverlight     7 HTML5     8 HTML5 Is Not Ready for Line of Business     10 HTML5 Won’t Keep Pace     11 HTML5 Isn’t Just Markup     12 HTML5 Is Not Native     12 HTML5 Is the Perfect Technology     14 Which Client Technology Is Right for You?     14 Use What You Know     15 Listen to the Customer     15 Consider the Development Team     16 Analyze Third-party Dependencies     17 LOB Applications     18 Summary     19 Chapter 2 Getting Started     21 Setting Up Your Environment     21 Silverlight 5 SDK and Visual Studio Tools     22 Expression Blend SDK     22 Silverlight Toolkit     24 Open Source Projects     25 Hello, Silverlight     26 Creating the Silverlight Application     27 Class Libraries     29 Application Services     32 Creating the Extension XAP     41 Sharing between Silverlight and the Core Framework     48 What about Those Templates?     53 The Standard Solution     55 Web Host     55 The Silverlight Project     59 Anatomy of a XAP File     61 Summary     64 Chapter 3 Extensible Application Markup Language (Xaml)     67 Markup and Class Instantiation     68 Dependency Objects and Properties     70 Dependency Properties     71 Attached Properties     75 Value Precedence     76 Markup Extensions     76 Type Converters     81 Value Converters     84 Styles     86 Storyboards     91 Layout     95 Measure and Arrange     96 Canvas     96 Grid     97 StackPanel     101 VirtualizingPanel and VirtualizingStackPanel     103 Containers     104 ContentControl     104 ItemsControl     105 ScrollViewer     105 ViewBox     106 Basic Controls     108 Summary     111 Chapter 4 Advanced Xaml     113 Working with Text     114 Rich Text     114 Character Spacing     120 Line Height     121 Parts, States, and Templates     123 Parts     123 States     127 Data Templates     128 Design-time Extensions     132 Interactivity with Behaviors and Triggers     141 Behaviors     141 Triggers     147 Natural User Interface (NUI)     149 Resource Dictionaries and Isolating Themes     151 Embedding and Distributing Fonts     155 Tips for XAP Extensions     157 Summary     159 Chapter 5 The Visual State Manager     161 Introduction to the VSM     162 Groups     162 States     165 Transitions     170 The Visual State Manager Workflow     171 Advanced Troubleshooting and Events     172 Custom Visual State Managers     176 The Visual State Manager in Blend     177 The Visual State Aggregator     185 Summary     194 Chapter 6 Data-Binding     195 Data-Binding Basics     196 Data-Binding Debugging     200 Data-Binding within Styles     203 Synchronizing Lists     208 Commands     218 Validation     220 Validation with Exceptions     224 Validation Using Data Error Info     226 Asynchronous Validation     230 Fluent Validation     232 Summary     244 Chapter 7 Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)     245 UI Design Patterns     246 The Model-View-ViewModel Pattern     251 The Model     255 The View     262 The View Model     264 Binding the View Model to the View     265 View Model Locators     265 Controllers     269 Design-Time View Models     271 Custom Markup Extensions     272 View-Model-First Approach Versus View-First Approach     274 Lists and Data Elements     275 Summary     276 Chapter 8 The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)     279 Discovery     281 Imports     281 Exports     284 Parts     286 Catalogs     287 Containers     288 Composition Initializer and Host     289 Lifetime Management     291 Extensibility     295 Recomposition     297 Deployment Catalog     301 Discovering XAP Files     303 Offline Catalog     305 Metadata     306 Weakly Typed Metadata     306 Strongly Typed Metadata     309 Lazy     312 Troubleshooting     313 Understanding Stable Composition     314 Import Parameters     315 The MEF Debugger     316 Jounce, an MVVM with MEF Framework     318 Summary     319 Chapter 9 Testing     321 Why Test?     322 Testing Eliminates Assumptions     323 Testing Kills Bugs at the Source     324 Testing Helps Document Code     324 Testing Makes Extending and Maintaining Applications Easier     325 Testing Improves Architecture and Design     326 Testing Makes Better Developers     326 Conclusion: You Should Test     327 Unit Tests     327 Silverlight Unit Testing Framework     332 Linked Classes and Shared Testing     338 Automated Testing     343 Mocking and MEF     345 View Model Tests     352 Testing Xaml     359 Coded UI Tests     364 Challenges     366 Automation Peers     367 Summary     371 Chapter 10 Navigation     373 The Silverlight Navigation Framework     374 Basics of Navigation Using the Framework     375 Choosing Page-Based Navigation     377 Custom Navigation     378 Manual Navigation     379 Containers     379 Navigation Events     384 Region Management     391 Summary     398 Chapter 11 The Service Layer     399 Domain Data and Behaviors     400 Strategies for Sharing Domain Objects between the Client and Server     401 DOM Interop and ASP.NET Callbacks     402 The Updated To-Do List     402 DOM Interoperability     404 Another Example: Callbacks     407 Communication     412 Representational State Transfer (REST)     412 Plain Old XML (POX) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)     423 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)     424 WCF RIA Services     431 Local Messages     435 Sockets     436 Mapping and Transformation     443 Mapping Versus Exposing the Model     443 Dynamic Types     448 The Custom Type Provider     450 Asynchronous Techniques     452 Events Versus the Asynchronous Programming Model (APM)     452 Lambda Expressions and Method Chaining     455 Action and Callbacks     456 Reactive Extensions (Rx)     459 IWorkflow     460 Tasks and await     463 Summary     465 Chapter 12 Persistence and State Management     467 The To-Do List Application     468 WCF RIA Services     468 Filters and Sorts     471 Navigation Parameters     472 Persisting Preferences with Settings     473 Folders and Files in Isolated Storage     476 Managing Isolated Storage Access and Quotas     478 Accessing Folders and Files     482 Finding Isolated Storage     484 Iterating the File System     485 Signing Files     491 Encrypting Files in Silverlight     494 Sterling in Silverlight     498 Summary     514 Chapter 13 Out of Browser Applications     515 Getting Started     516 Checking for Updates     523 Elevated Trust     526 Application Signing     528 File System Access     530 Toast Notifications     531 Child Windows     535 COM Interop and Script Host     540 Native Silverlight Extensions     546 p/Invoke     547 Elevated Trust in the Browser     552 Distribution and Installation     553 Installation     553 Execution     554 Uninstalling Your OOB Application    555 Summary     556 Chapter 14 Line of Business Features     557 Designer/Developer Workflow     559 Printing     561 Localization     571 Modularity and Extensibility     576 Scalability     578 Extremely Large Data Sets     578 Concurrency     590 Synchronization     593 Proof of Concept     594 Summary     596 Chapter 15 Debugging and Performance Optimization     597 Debugging Silverlight Applications     598 Debug Symbols     600 Debugging Tips     602 Debugging Applications Already Launched     608 WinDbg     611 Logging and Tracing     616 Client Logging and Tracing     617 WCF Tracing     619 Profiling Applications with Visual Studio     622 Fiddler     625 Silverlight Spy      626 Summary      627 Glossary      629 Index      653

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Jeremy Likness was named Silverlight MVP of the Year in 2010. Now Senior Consultant and Technical Project Manager for Wintellect, LLC, he has spent the past decade building highly scalable web-based commercial solutions using the Microsoft technology stack. He has 15 years of experience developing enterprise applications in vertical markets including insurance, health/wellness, supply chain management, and mobility. Likness created the popular MVVM framework Jounce, as well as an open source Silverlight Isolated Storage Database System (“Sterling”). He speaks and blogs frequently on Silverlight, MEF, Prism, Team Foundation Server, and related Microsoft technologies.  

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