Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action: Develop a full LOB Silverlight 5 application from scratch with the help of expert advice and an accompanying case study with this book and ebook

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Chapter 2. Forms and Browsing

The aim of this book is that you, the reader, become capable of implementing your own Silverlight application. You may be getting an idea of the controls you need and how many screens your application will contain.

In this chapter, you will learn the features that Silverlight offers for large-scale application layout (UserControls, Page, ChildWindow, Navigation Framework), as well as the mechanism which Silverlight provides for browsing between the different pages the application may have.

Controls definitions

Most management applications base their User Interface (UI) on forms. However, each technology names them in its own way (forms, views, windows). Let us begin by defining the elements Silverlight offers and their description:

Control	Description
Container	It allows us to host other controls within itself. All controls mentioned in the table are Containers.
UserControl	We can define content on it.
Page	It inherits from UserControl and adds functionalities which permit a better integration with the Windows Navigation Framework in Silverlight.
Popup	It also depends on UserControl. It is shown above all Silverlight controls.
ContentControl	It represents a control with a single piece of content.
ChildWindow	It is a specialization of Popup control. It is used to show modal dialogs.

Note

ContentControl is beyond this book's contents. Nevertheless, you can find a good introductory article at: http://www.mostlydevelopers.com/mostlydevelopers/blog/post/2009/03/30...

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Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications. "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice. Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.With "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.

Who is this book for?

If you already have a firm grasp of Silverlight development and are keen to advance your specialist knowledge of Line of Business (LOB) application development, then Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action is for you. If you are a developer with experience of other technologies, you may also find this book useful.

What you will learn

Get up and running with coverage of LOB development challenges like building forms, navigation, and service and database access
Get to grips with the MVVM pattern and how to integrate it with RIA Services
Dig deeper by implementing both in Browser and Out of Browser trusted applications
Become fully acquainted with Silverlight and HTML/JavaScript integration
Understand how to add authentication and authorization to your Silverlight application
Gain advanced knowledge of error control topics like error notification to TFS
Become fully equipped with everything an expert developer should know about building Line of Business applications using Silverlight 5
Take advantage of a complete LOB case study built gradually from start to finish throughout each chapter

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Publication date : Feb 24, 2012

Length: 430 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781849683548

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Davide Zordan May 24, 2012

I have received a copy of the book for review and I must say it is well written and contains lot of valuable information for developing LOB applications using Silverlight 5.This is a complex subject and the authors did a very good job providing essential information like design patterns and frameworks (including MVVM and MEF), testability and tools, security and building / consuming data services which are fundamental topics in this area.The examples are complete and provide ready-to-use code for your applications.I definitely recommend this book for exploring this complex subject using Silverlight!

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Evil J May 22, 2012

Wow... this book is heavy on content and examples delivering what it promises and more. With most titles that purport to cover the development of applications, it seems that they are often heavy on theory but very light on providing examples of how to apply the theory leaving the reader to flee to Google to find relevant sample code. That is not the case here. In fact, there are times where the discussion of the samples takes up more space than the chapter that covered the concept being illustrated. This is specifically why I liked this book. Because it walks the reader through the steps to actually generate sample applications based on the concepts covered. It is like a built-in blueprint that teaches you the why then proceeds to show you the how. As a developer, I found this refreshing and was amazed that I didn't have to do any research on my own... everything I needed was in the book. And when I did want to dive deeper on a subject, the additional resources at the end of each chapter provided solid jumping-off points to the best content on the Internet.Even though the book targets LOB applications specifically, and browser-based Silverlight more generally, I think there is good material for any Silverlight developer. The book also covers the challenges/advantages of OOB Silverlight applications giving the developer what they need to know to successfully implement an OOB application. And I'm glad to say that the chapter was much more than just `Set the OOB check box on in the project properties'. The patterns and methods presented in the book are applicable across nearly every type of SL application. I found myself even applying the knowledge gained from this title to a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application I'm working on. The lessons and the knowledge in this book are both deep and wide with it casting a net that is going to cover nearly everything needed to develop a SL app from start to finish. This is a book I am going to go back to for some time to come. It is not only educational the first time through but will be useful as a reference going forward.I found the section on testing especially useful since testing of SL applications seems to be something that isn't often talked about. Chapters on error handling techniques, consuming WCF web services, integrating with the hosting HTML and JavaScript facilities, and finally, the section on application security were all gems and really illustrate the idea that the book is about delivering LOB apps from end to end... Not just getting you to where something is working and then leaving you to fend for yourself. There is even a chapter dealing specifically with error handling/logging in SL apps and demonstrating how to setup a centralized logging server. (The example shows integrating with TFS for bug tracking. I would have liked an example with Log4Net as the backend as that seems to be a popular approach as well.) The overall completeness of the case studies and the fact that all of these topics were covered was a pleasant surprise. The authors were even nice enough to let you know where differences between SL 4 and SL 5 would impact your work and provided guidance on how to handle these differences.If there was something that struck me as missing it was a chapter on long-polling or SignalR. A lot of applications, especially LOB, need to be notified of changes on the server or in other clients and a discussion of techniques to address that would have made this book 100% complete. Especially since SignalR is going to be integrated into .NET. But, at the same time, I'm willing to overlook this omission as a topic like SignalR is still relatively new to the SL scene and, as it isn't part of a .NET release yet, I can see people avoiding it in production LOB applications.Overall, I found this to be an excellent book and a very thorough blueprint for Silverlight LOB applications. If this is an area you find yourself working in, this would be an excellent title to have on your bookshelf.

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Marino Posadas May 14, 2012

This book assumes the reader knows the basics of Silverlight development, and wants to get deeper into LOB applications' development (although starts with an "Express introduction to Silverlight, just in case). So, it emphasizes on aspects like Data Binding, Form's navigation, the MVVM model, access to web services (including Social Networks), integration with other applications and security.I think it's perfect for those who want to have a quick glimpse on what to do to create this type of applications, and also, have their code ready for the changes to come in Windows 8.

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Tim Cochran May 18, 2012

This book is exactly what I needed...unfortunately I needed it 8 months ago when I started development of a Silverlight 5 Line of Business application (a re-write of an existing Enterprise Desktop application). If you are considering Silverlight 5 for your Line of Business applications (and why not?), then this book is an excellent place to begin. If I had this book before I started development, it would have increased my productivity multi-fold. Most of the approaches I had to discover on my own are well documented in "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action". It was almost as the authors had been in some of our early design meetings. It is a testament to the fact that this book was developed from real-world experiences and not an academic exercise.The book starts out with a few introductory chapters covering most of the basics of Silverlight 5, then immediately jumps into architecting your LOB application. Several key architectural patterns are discussed (MVVM, WCF RIA Services, etc.) that help LOB architects gain an understand of what SL 5 has to offer. A few frameworks are mentioned (although not a comprehensive list) and examples are given to get the reader headed down the right path in selecting (or building) a Silverlight architecture of their own.Throughout the book, I appreciated the case study approach of introducing a new concept, then creating a real-world LOB application (or building on a previous one) to concretely demonstrate the concept just learned. As I stated above, the book is not an exhaustive reference for developing Line of Business applications, but does a good job of introducing all the key areas of LOB application design. Some of the areas covered are: Data Access, Out of Browser, Testing, Web Services, Security, Error handling and more."Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" has earned a place on my book shelf as a good reference for creating Silverlight 5 Line of Business applications and a reference that I will recommend to others starting down the same path of Silverlight LOB development.Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action : [...]

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Alfredo Sep 13, 2012

I'll start off by saying I almost dropped a star because of the lack of guidance on implementing a truly modular solution with IoC.What attracted me to the title is its coverage of Silverlight 5 and I wanted to know what new features were available, without having to filter through all of the basic information related to Silverlight development.Typos are minimal and irrelevant to understanding. Some are funny, like Vista instead of View, seen as how all six contributors have Spanish names. In one instance Chapter 10 is referenced as Chapter 11, but overall there are very few hard errors.I didn't download any of the code samples; they never get big or complicated enough to warrant having to run the code.If you have some practice already the first three chapters won't provide anything new, but they will jog your memory on many basic subjects if you're preparing for an exam and want to make sure you've not forgotten a major subject. It's an extremely brief, but condense summary, yet liberal references for further learning are provided. The summary of the Navigation Framework stands out.The rest of the book will not teach you a thing other than topics related to general application blocks and patterns and how to implement them using Silverlight. Nothing on Printing, Media, Animation... it's not that kind of book, which is great.The samples periodically restart, so if you don't like the direction of one sample app it won't be long before you get to another small and specifically targeted sample.In Chapter 4: Architecture, the use of MVVM with MEF is discussed. It emphasizes the unfortunate reality that without good design a project may have to be scrapped as the repairs may be too costly. PRISM isn't discussed and I feel it deserved more of a mention.I find that authors from whom I learn best propose questions designed to differentiate one strategy over another, to show how the "why" makes the "what" understandable. The authors' use of this technique helps to show why the MVVM pattern fits for Silverlight and WPF development.You read why good design with MVVM and MEF automatically tends toward easier unit testing, and go into depth on the subject in Chapter 7.What I really like about chapter 4 is it even suggests how to setup your Visual Studio solution which can be a great help to a beginner.I'm more convinced to make use of the Navigation Framework with the demonstration of its encapsulation and integration in the ViewModel layer, especially with its parameter passing capabilities.Chapter 5: RIA Services Data Access was one nugget where I hoped I could learn something new in Silverlight 5. I've always felt that RIA Services has been promoted poorly and taught in an unnecessarily vague and confusing manner. This book does it right, you feel you know what RIA Services is and in which subjects you'll want to learn more. Yet I didn't see much differentiation between SL 4 and 5, even if the answer was that there aren't any changes. It was a bit disappointing to realize the book was not a contrast between SL 4 and 5, but then again it doesn't claim to be.Without knowing how to customize the proxy generation, one can find the default proxy feels very limiting. The book does an excellent job in explaining how to customize the client proxy to your needs.Chapter 5 will leave you wanting much more, but it encourages you in the right direction. For example, Transactions get a total of two lines of text, but many references for further learning are provided.The nugget in Chapter 7 is about testing asynchronous client code such as making mock calls for UI related operations. Basically, the point is you don't want to actually call web methods, so fake it.The exception handling primer in Chapter 8 helps to differentiate regular exception handling with the focus on SL exception handling and asynchronous patterns. I found the logging and bug reporting architecture to be quite interesting.Chapter 9 is for anyone desiring to seamlessly mix ASPX pages and SL with control flow between them.Chapters 10 and 11 really were stark reminders of the tone of the entire book, a high level view for those looking to see what they're in for in tackling the business components of a Silverlight LOB.I suppose the authors could have excluded the first three chapters and not even attempted to pacify those readers looking for a broader introduction to Silverlight, since they wouldn't be satisfied anyway. What this book tries to do is say, "Hey, this is how you define a pattern to work within for your business application so it's extensible and not so coupled, this is how you implement general concepts like data access, logging, validation, security, exception handling, etc. and here are some frameworks and tools to assist you, all in Silverlight development". It's like someone showing a WPF developer the differences between WPF and Silverlight.Readers who find this book informative will definitely want to check out Packt Publishing's "MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF" which at over 400 pages will provide an even more in-depth analysis of the MVVM pattern for Silverlight.Packt Publishing's "Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook" pairs great with this book for those looking to solidify their understanding of the data and communication layers. At over 600 pages, you will truly master data access with Silverlight.The co-author of the book just reviewed has an article on Silverlight 5 LOB development at: [...]Up to date Silverlight SOA is discussed in another great article at: [...]

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Creating windows and controls

UserControl

Example of UserControl

Creating modal dialogs

Example of modal dialogs

Navigation

Navigating the Web

Creating a sample Navigation Application

Navigation control services

LOB application case study: applying what we have learnt

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