Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5 by Botella, Braulio Diaz -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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

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Preface

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

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

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Additional resources

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

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MapView.XAML page AdminView.XAML Page Modal AdminEditionView.xaml dialog

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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

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Entity classes ObservableCollection

AdminViewModel object Data binding

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4. Architecture

Patterns MVVM pattern

Creating an MVVM-based sample application

Creating the project structure Coding the project

MyTweet.Model

MyTweet.ViewModel

MyTweet.View

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

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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

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Server

Test Model Modules

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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+

Writing an entry on the registry Executing notepad from our application

P/Invoke Cross-domain calls WebBrowser control

How it works

Real windows

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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

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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

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Server side Client side

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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

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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

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Implementation of the service client

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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

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Server side Client side

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