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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4

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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 which to build business applications. It's a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it's moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread adoption.

This book will guide you through the process of designing and developing enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 4 and C#. You will learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to develop rich and robust business applications, from getting started to deployment, and everything in between.

In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to design business applications, and introduce the patterns to use, the issues that you'll face, and how to resolve them. Chris Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for years, demonstrates his experience through a candid presentation of how to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoid them. Developers will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application design patterns that he shares throughout the book.

With this book in hand, you will


Create a fully functional business application in Silverlight Discover how to satisfy all of the general requirements that most business applications need Develop a business application framework

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

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Profile Image for Nishant Rana.
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February 5, 2012
It is surely one of the best book on business application development with Silverlight.
It starts with basics of Silverlight and XAML.
Then it gradually covers the important topics like Navigation Framework, WCF RIA Services, MVVM, OOB Mode etc.
It covers almost every aspect of developing a business application.
I don't think there exist any other book that explains this topic in such great detail.
I will highly recommend this book.
Profile Image for Mohammad Elsheimy.
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June 8, 2011
Should have devoted more for the MVVM patterns and frameworks instead of the discussion of .NET basics (e.g. file IO.)
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