Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development

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1 Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development Build Enterprise-Ready Business Applications with Silverlight Frank LaVigne Cameron Albert, - PUBLISHING - 1 BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

2 Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started Skills needed 7 A special note for ASP.NET developers 8 A special note for Windows Forms developers 8 A special note for WPF developers,8 A special note for Flash/FLEX developers 9 New concepts of Silverlight 9 Separation of presentation and Logic 9 XAML: Relax it's just XML 10 Dependency properties 11 Bumps along the road to Silverlight bliss 11 GIF files need not apply 11.Visibility!= Boolean 11 It's Button.Content, not Button/Text 12 Tools needed 13 Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio Silverlight runtime. 14 Silverlight toolkit 15 Expression Blend 15 Other useful tools 16 Deep Zoom Composer 16 Silverlight Spy 17 Expression Design 18 Expression Encoder 19 InkScape 20 Time for action - creating a Silverlight project 20 Summary 26

3 Chapter 2: Enhancing a Website with Silverlight 27 Retrofitting a website 27 Adding pizzazz with Silverlight 28 A few words on search engine optimization 28 Building a navigation control from the ground up 29 Picking the right kind of container 29 Stack it up: Using the StackPanel 30 Time for action - building navigation buttons in Silverlight 30 Adding a little style with Styles 32 Styles 32 Time for action - adding the style 35 Creating applications in Expression Blend 37 A crash course in Expression Blend 37 An artsy Visual Studio? 38 Time for action - styles revisited in Blend 41 Skinning a control 45 Time for action - Skinning a control 47 States of mind 52 Time for action - learning the Visual State Manager 52 Adding event handlers 56 Time for action - back to coding 57 Where are we really? 59 Animation in Silverlight 60 Time for action - animation time 60 Getting on the same page 71 Time for action - getting Silverlight onto a web page 72 Summary 76 Chapter 3: Adding Rich Media 79 Adding media to a Silverlight project "" 80 Time for action - adding background music 80 Embedding files versus referencing files 83 Adding video to a Silverlight project 87 Time for action - adding video 88 Using video as a brush 91 Time for action - creating and using a VideoBrush 91 Enriching an application with audio cues 95 Time for action - adding interactive sounds 95 Coding videos with Expression Media Encoder 99 A tour of the workspace 100 Encoding video 101 A quick word on video formats 101 liil

4 Time for action - let's encode a video! 102 Summary 106 Chapter 4: Taking the RIA Experience Further with Silverlight 107 Deep Zoom 107 Deep Zoom in action 109 Time for action - creating a Deep Zoom photo montage 111 Using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control 122 Using the Map Control 125 Time for action-getting started with mapping 125 Getting credentials 128 Time for action - adding our credentials 131 Taking control of the Map control 132 Time for action - taking control of the Map control 133 Adding store locations to the map ' 138 Time for action - adding store locations 138 Drawing out ideas 145 The InkPresenter control 146 Capturing strokes 146 Time for action - building a basic sketching application 147 Changing drawing attributes 151 Time for action - controlling the appearance of Ink 152 Erasing Strokes 156 Time for action - adding an erase feature 157 Storing Strokes in Isolated Storage 161 Isolated Storage 161 Time for action- adding persistence 163 Uploading sketches Asynchronous calls 169 Time for action - submitting sketches 169 Summary 172 Chapter 5: Handling Data 173 Data applications 173 Time for action - creating a business object 174 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ' 176 Time for action - creating a Silverlight enabled WCF service 177 Collecting data 186 Time for action - creating a form to collect data 186 Validating data 198 Data object 198 I ml

5 Time for action - creating a data object 198 Data binding 203 Time for action - binding our data object to our controls 203 Validation 207 Time for action-validating data input 208 Data submission 212 Time for action - submitting data to the server 212 Summary 217 Chapter 6: Back Office Applications.^ 219 WCF Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services 219 Time for action - creating a RIA Services application 220 SharePoint 238 Time for action - hosting a Silverlight application in SharePoint 238 Summary 248 Chapter 7: Customer Service Application 249 Customer data 249 Time for action - creating the data model 250 ADO.NET Entity Framework and WCF RIA Services 257 Time for action - creating the Entity Framework 258 User experience 264 Time for action - saving customer information 264 Customer service 281 Time for action - creating a customer lookup form 281 Summary 297 Chapter 8: Executive Dashboard Application 299 Data visualization 299 Time for action - creating the Executive Dashboard 300 Spreadsheet data ~- 312 Time for action - extending the Executive Dashboard 312 Summary 322 Chapter 9: Delivery Application 323 Creating a signature capture control 324 Creating our own lookless control 325 Time for action - creating a custom control 325 Improving the default template 330 Time for action - putting the control together 330 Dependency properties 337 The OnApplyTemplate method I to I

6 TemplateBinding 339 Implementing the custom control 340 Time for action - putting our lookless control to the test 340 Time for action - finishing the control 342 Mapping application 344 Geocoding 344 Time for action - Geocoding addresses to work 345 Route planning 353 Time for action - adding routing to our application 354 Summary 372 Chapter 10: Where to Go From Here 373 More Silverlight features 373 Checking network connectivity 374 Time for action - detecting network connectivity 375 Executing outside the browser 378 Enabling out of browser support 379 Time for action - creating an out-of-browser solution 379 Time for action - checking the In stall State property 384 Installing a Silverlight application locally 386 Deployment concerns 386 Uninstalling a Silverlight application 387 Beyond Silverlight 388 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 388 When to use WPF 388 Time for action - creating a WPF application 389 Future of Silverlight 390 Summary 390 Index 391 Ivl