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

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

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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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

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

Summary

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

LOB application case study: applying what we have learnt

MapView.XAML page

AdminView.XAML Page

Modal AdminEditionView.xaml dialog

Summary

Additional resources

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

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

Summary

Additional resources

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

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

In-browser trusted applications

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned

Summary

Additional resources

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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Summary

Additional resources

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

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

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

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