Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards
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The Silverlight Technology
- The Silverlight Technology
- What benefit does Silverlight bring to the table?
- Client-side application development
- Reduced server load
- Client-side state
- Cross-browser development simplified
- Putting the pieces together
- Summary
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Overview of Dashboards and Silverlight
- Overview of Dashboards and Silverlight
- What are dashboards
- Purpose of dashboards
- Problems dashboards solve
- Current state of building dashboards
- When good just isn't good enough
- Why should we use Silverlight?
- Summary
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Silverlight Design and Development Tools
- Silverlight Design and Development Tools
- Blend strengths and weaknesses
- Visual Studio strengths and weaknesses
- Visual Studio
- Summary
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Building a Basic Dashboard
- Building a Basic Dashboard
- Creating a Silverlight Dashboard Application
- What is the MVVM pattern
- Building the Dashboard
- Customizing the UI
- Summary
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Dashboard Types and User Needs
- Dashboard Types and User Needs
- Different dashboards for different needs
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—typical dashboard charts and graphs
- Focusing on needs, not technology
- Scenario-based requirements and design
- Summary
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Designing for Insight
- Designing for Insight
- Interaction aesthetics versus visual aesthetics
- Scenario-based design of our dashboard
- Summary
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Designing your Dashboard
- Designing your Dashboard
- Knowing your tools
- Styling in Silverlight
- Getting started with styling our Dashboard
- Summary
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Building an End-to-End Solution
- Building an End-to-End Solution
- Dashboard prerequisites
- Dashboard requirements
- Designing the solution
- Setting up the Data Source
- Building the server components
- Defining the presentation layer
- Summary
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Data Access Strategies
- Data Access Strategies
- Data access overview
- Understanding network security
- Building services with Windows Communication Foundation
- Exploring OData data services
- Summary
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Building Dashboards in SharePoint and Silverlight
- Building Dashboards in SharePoint and Silverlight
- Overview of SharePoint
- Building a Silverlight web part
- Building a SharePoint Silverlight dashboard
- SharePoint Data Access Strategies
- Summary