Silverlight 5 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build
business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment,
cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client,
rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close
to the perfect platform on which to build business applications. It's a
very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it's moving forward at
a rapid pace and is gaining widespread popularity.
This book guides you through the process of designing and developing
enterprise-strength business applications in Silverlight 5 and C#.
You'll learn how to take advantage of the power of Silverlight to
develop rich and robust business applications--from getting started to
deployment, and everything in between.
In particular, this book will serve developers who want to learn how to
design business applications. It will introduce the patterns you'll use,
the issues you'll face, and how to resolve them. Author Chris
Anderson, who has been building line-of-business applications for
years, demonstrates his expertise through a candid presentation of how
to tackle real-life issues, rather than just avoiding them. Developers
will benefit from his hard-won expertise through business application
design patterns that he shares throughout the book.
With this book in hand, you will:
- Create a fully-functional business application in Silverlight
- Discover how to satisfy the general requirements that most business
applications need
- Develop a business application framework
