Book review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development
September 3rd, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development by Cameron Albert and Frank La Vigne
As the authors Frank LaVigne and Cameron Albert say this beginner’s guide in Silverlight 4 Business Application Development walks you through the wow factors of creating interactive RIAs and quickly start building business applications. The examples in the book are structured in a clear step by step manner, making you eager to start exploring the features right away. After the brief “Time for action” instructions there is a great “What just happened?” section which makes an overall look at the described feature and will certainly give you ideas for your own work.
The travel begins with a brief introduction into the Silverlight language – the power of XAML to create rich experience with hardly any procedural code, how easy and graceful it is to bring sound in your applications and the great tools a developer must have in the top drawer of his bad time cabinet. Deep Zoom brings you a whole new world of perceptions assuring a smooth user experience while exploring terabytes of images. You’ll surely be happy to write your first and surely not the last “I love ink” application. The book dives deep into the Bing Maps API – from simple mapping to enhanced route planning and geocoding. It further explores in great details the WCF services, how to create custom controls and data validation in a real time created business application example project. This project is later expanded with the ADO.NET Entity Framework model and WCF RIA Services, showing the reader how to customize data and deliver the business application in a variety of forms. The real time business application examples really make the best there is to guide you through the many features which Silverlight gives us.
