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    Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE
    Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE
    Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE
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    Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE

    By Gill Cleeren

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    This practical, hands-on cookbook is specifically designed for developers who want to build rich data-driven business applications using Silverlight, designed to show you how to interact with and handle multiple sources of data, how to solve particular data problems and how to interact with services. The material has been carefully selected from Packt’s fuller Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook. If you are a .NET developer who wants to build professional data-driven applications with Sliverlight, then this book is for you. Basic experience of programming Silverlight and familiarity with accessing data using ADO.NET in normal .NET applications is required.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781849683852
    Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE

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      Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook - Gill Cleeren

      Table of Contents

      Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the reviewers

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code for the book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. An Introduction to Data Binding

      Introduction

      Displaying data in Silverlight applications

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating dynamic bindings

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Binding data to another UI element

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Element bindings without bindings

      See also

      Binding collections to UI elements

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Enabling a Silverlight application to automatically update its UI

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Single objects

      Collections

      Cleaning up the code

      Obtaining data from any UI element it is bound to

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Using the different modes of data binding to allow persisting data

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Data binding from Expression Blend 4

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Using Expression Blend 4 for sample data generation

      How to do it...

      2. Talking to Services

      Introduction

      Connecting and reading from a standardized service

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Persisting data using a standardized service

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Configuring cross-domain calls

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Working cross-domain from a trusted Silverlight application

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      See also

      Reading XML using HttpWebRequest

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      The request

      The response

      Threading headaches

      Reading out an RSS feed

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      RSS versions

      See also

      Aggregating RSS feeds

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using socket communication in Silverlight

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      The policy server

      The socket server

      Connecting the Silverlight application

      Index

      Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE

      Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook: LITE

      Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, Packt Publishing, nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

      Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: April 2011

      Production Reference: 2200411

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

      ISBN 978-1-849683-84-5

      www.packtpub.com

      Cover Image by Sandeep ( <sandyjb@gmail.com> )

      Credits

      Authors

      Gill Cleeren

      Kevin Dockx

      Reviewers

      Kevin DeRudder

      Mike Hanley

      Tarkan Karadayi

      Kris van der Mast

      Acquisition Editor

      Kerry George

      Technical Editor

      Harshit Shah

      Indexer

      Monica Ajmera Mehta

      Production Coordinators

      Arvindkumar Gupta

      Alwin Roy

      Cover Work

      Arvindkumar Gupta

      About the Authors

      Gill Cleeren is Microsoft's Regional Director, Silverlight MVP, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium, where he works as a .NET architect at Ordina. Since its introduction, Gill has been a .NET enthusiast. For the first few years of his career, he developed ASP.NET applications. The very day that Silverlight was introduced to the world, back in 2007, he started working with the technology. Since then, he has given many training sessions, written numerous articles and developed several applications, both with Silverlight and WPF.

      As MVP and Regional Director, Gill is also very active in the Belgian and international community as a speaker and user group leader for Visug, the Belgian .NET user group. His blog on .NET, ASP.NET, and Silverlight can be found at http://www.snowball.be.

      Writing has become a new passion of mine. Over a year ago, Kevin and I published our very first book, the full edition of the lite edition you're holding now. Writing a book is a lot of work but seeing the result of my hard work on a shelf in a bookstore is worth it. I hope this lite edition can introduce you to building small business applications with Silverlight!

      Of course, writing a book is not the work of a single person! During the writing period, the people of Packt have been most helpful in every way. I really want to thank Kerry George for replying to the countless mails we have exchanged! Of course, a very big thank you to both my mother and my lovely girlfriend Lindsey, for the patience during the days I spent more time writing than being with you.

      Kevin Dockx lives in Belgium and works at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies, where he is a technical specialist/project leader on .NET web applications, mainly Silverlight, and a solution manager for Rich Applications (Silverlight, WPF, Surface, WP7).His main focus lies on all things Silverlight, but he still keeps an eye on the new developments concerning other products from the Microsoft .NET (Web) Stack. As a Silverlight enthusiast, he's a regular speaker on various national and international events, like Microsoft TechDays Belgium & Portugal, Microsoft DevDays in The Netherlands or on BESUG events (the Belgian Silverlight User Group). His blog, which contains various tidbits on Silverlight, .NET, and the occasional rambling, can be found at http://blog.kevindockx.com.

      After our previous book, Packt Publishing asked us if we'd like to take part in their Lite book program: short, to the point books that provide part of the full books' content, a useful introduction to what the full book offers, and a great starting point for developers. Sounded like a great idea to us, but let me tell you: It's not easy at all to select the correct chapters/recipes for a Lite edition. However, I'm confident this book offers a good taste of the full one: a good introduction to Silverlight, Data & Services - I hope you'll enjoy reading it!

      I'd like to thank anyone who helped me out with this book. Besides that, I'd also like to thank my friends for sticking around while I was busy spending my time writing this book instead of socializing ;-)

      About the reviewers

      Kevin DeRudder is a .NET trainer and consultant at U2U, mainly focusing on the WEB. In the recent years, Kevin was involved in lots of Silverlight and ASP.NET projects for a variety of clients and projects.

      Mike Hanley is the VP of Engineering at Vertigo Software, Inc. (http://www.vertigo.com). He has worked as a Software Engineer, specializing on the Microsoft Platform for over ten years. Recently, Mike has spent a great deal of time working on Silverlight applications for clients ranging from Hard Rock International to the Democratic National Committee. Most recently, Mike has worked on several live video events using IIS Smooth Streaming. Mike is a Certified Scrum Master and graduated from

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