Silverlight 4: Problem - Design - Solution

by Nick Lecrenski

A hands-on guide to Microsoft's latest rich application development Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 is the newest version of the rich Internet application toolkit that provides support for .NET capabilities over the Internet. With this latest release of Silverlight, Microsoft has revolutionized the way that Web applications can be created. This book uses the popular Problem – Design – Solution strategy to demonstrate how to harness the power and abilities of Silverlight 4 to add value to the overall user experience of a Web site. Using a Web site created by the author as a reference point, you'll go through the steps of creating a live, fully functional application for the Web using Silverlight 4 and the Silverlight Control Toolkit. Along the way, the book addresses important design considerations, such as the use of Web Services and the SQL Server database. With this book, you'll quickly get started using the new features of Silverlight 4 to enhance the user experience of a Web site. CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

528 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2010

Reviews

[Michael Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

It has taken me two years to work through this book in detail. I feel that I know every line of it by now. In the interim Microsoft has released VWDE2010 and 2011, the silverlight toolkit, and the silverlight business application template, with all the new page-navigation-inside-a-xap features. This book was ahead of its time. Unfortunately now it is behind the times.

What I can say is that almost everything I know about SL4 for business apps and WCF RIA, is as a result of struggling with the examples in this book. For that I am enormously grateful to Nick Lecrenski.