December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 2m
English
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Problems This Book Solves for Readers
This book aims to solve a variety of problems that developers frequently encounter, including how to do the following:
Develop data-centric Silverlight 2 applications with Blend and Visual Studio
Implement commonly required Silverlight data-binding techniques
Develop communicative data-binding operations that include notifications
Retrieve cross-domain data and work with cross-domain policies
Debug web services and communications from Silverlight 2 applications
Request and send data to and from SOAP-based web services from Silverlight 2
Communicate with RESTful web services from Silverlight 2
Manage XML from noncontractual services such as REST and RSS using LINQ
Design and build SOAP and RESTful web services for Silverlight applications
Build Silverlight 2 applications on top of multitier application architectures with customer domain entity models
Build Silverlight 2 applications that interact with entity domain models built with custom classes, the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and LINQ to SQL
Use ADO.NET Data Services to retrieve/send data with Silverlight 2
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