Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Express Introduction to Silverlight
• Introduction to Silverlight
• Installation
• Silverlight architecture
• Creating the Hello World project
• Creating a new project
• Coding directly into the markup language
• Dragging-and-dropping controls
• Interacting with Code-Behind
• XAML basic concepts
• What is XAML?
• Basic elements for layout definition
• Canvas
• StackPanel
• Grid
• Controls
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 2: Forms and Browsing
• Controls definitions
• Creating windows and controls
• UserControl
• Example of UserControl
• Instantiating the control from code (Code-Behind)
• Page control
• Creating modal dialogs
• Example of modal dialogs
• Navigation
• Navigating the Web
• Silverlight Navigation Framework
• Integrating Navigation Framework in the browser
• UriMapper
• Frame
• Creating a sample Navigation Application
• Adding a new page
• Navigation control services
• URI parameters
• Deep Linking
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learnt
• MapView.XAML page
• AdminView.XAML Page
• Modal AdminEditionView.xaml dialog
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 3: Data Binding
• Understanding DataSource
• Path
• Binding sources
• DataContext
• Change notifications
• Data binding modes
• Introducing the ViewModel
• ViewModel example
• Dependency properties
• Data binding from Code-Behind
• Adding validations
• BindingValidationError
• DataAnnotations
• Converters
• IValueConverter
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Entity classes
• ObservableCollection
• AdminViewModel object
• Data binding
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 4: Architecture
• Patterns
• MVVM pattern
• Creating an MVVM-based sample application
• Creating the project structure
• Coding the project
• MVVM Light Toolkit
• ViewModelBase
• RelayCommand
• Messenger
• Managed Extensibilty Framework (MEF)
• MEF definitions
• Parts and contracts
• Composition
• Creating a mock model using MEF
• Solution and folder structure
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Project structure
• Folder structure
• Main solution structure
• Libraries
• Packt.Libs.Navigation
• Packt.Libs.Threading
• Packt.Libs.Utils
• Packt.Libs.Windows
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 5: RIA Services Data Access
• Accessing data
• RIA Services pieces
• Creating a Domain Service and consuming it from a Silverlight application
• CRUD
• Read
• Create
• Update
• Delete
• Error control
• Simple data binding
• Validation
• DataAnnotations
• Simple validations
• Custom and shared validations
• Entity-level validations
• Domain Services validations
• Server validations
• Asynchronous validations
• Advanced topics
• Cancelling changes
• Transactions
• Domain Service and partial classes
• Include
• Composition
• Solving the many-to-many relationship issue
• RIA Services and MVVM
• Encapsulating RIA Services in a model
• Context lifetime discussion and model factory
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Server
• Test
• Model
• Modules
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 6: Out of Browser (OOB) Applications
• Out of Browser (OOB)
• Executing an application in OOB mode
• Enhancing the experience—tooling up and updating
• In-browser/OOB detection
• Detecting the application installed
• Installing the custom interface
• Uninstalling an OOB application
• Offline installation
• Updates
• Offline work
• How it works
• Breaking the sandbox—trusted applications
• Enabling trusted mode
• Advantages of trusted applications
• Accessing files
• Making calls to COM+
• P/Invoke
• Cross-domain calls
• WebBrowser control
• Real windows
• In-browser trusted applications
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 7: Testing your LOB Application
• Types of testing
• Methodologies
• Unit testing with Silverlight
• Testing server code
• Testing client code with MSTest
• Libraries to test Silverlight code
• Testing synchronous client code with Silverlight Unit Testing
• Testing asynchronous client code with Silverlight Unit Testing
• Isolating unit tests via substitutes
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 8: Error Control
• Following best practices
• Exception handling
• Getting started
• Try and catch
• The "finally" expression
• Strategies
• Asynchronous patterns
• AsyncCompletedEventArgs
• ExceptionRoutedEventArgs/UnhandledExceptionEventHandler
• Global exception handling
• Understanding the exception types
• Fatal exception
• Boneheaded exceptions
• Vexing exceptions
• Exogenous exceptions
• Logging
• Enterprise application framework
• Architecture
• Practice
• Exception handling
• PostSharp
• Reporting bugs
• Architecture
• Service implementation
• Client implementation
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Server side
• Client side
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 9: Integration with other Web Applications
• Page architecture
• Communication between an ASPX page and Silverlight
• Accessing Silverlight from JavaScript
• Exposing methods and functions
• Returning complex data
• Registering a Silverlight object
• Accessing JavaScript from Silverlight
• HtmlPage object
• DOM handling from Silverlight
• HtmlDocument
• HtmlElement
• Interaction between Silverlight and JavaScript
• Address book
• Visual Studio solution
• Login page
• Contact list
• Contact edition
• Calling JavaScript code
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Chapter 10: Consuming Web Services
• Definitions
• Implementing and consuming a WCF service
• Proposal for sample projects
• Building the server
• Enabling WCF service for Silverlight 4
• Designing the client UI
• Referencing a WCF service from client
• Consuming a WCF service from Silverlight
• Using complex types via WCF
• Consuming a public API web service
• Twitter API
• Starting the Twitter project
• Calling the Twitter API
• Processing JSON format
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Implementation of the service client
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Security
• Client-side security
• Critical information
• Signing assemblies
• XAP and certificates
• XAP and obfuscation
• Server-side and communication security
• Validations
• Cross-domain calls
• Security in our communications
• Authentication and authorization with RIA Services
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Authentication and authorization in WCF Services
• Protecting communications with SSL
• LOB application case study: applying what we have learned
• Server side
• Client side
• Summary
• Additional resources

• Index