July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1026 pages
27h 59m
English
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Chapter 37. Next Generation Web: Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC
There's no doubt that users are expecting richer and more sophisticated user interfaces in web applications. High-profile web applications such as Google Maps, Windows Live Local, and Gmail have captured the imagination of web developers and led to an increased interest in pushing the boundaries of what is possible to build using HTML.
Unfortunately, web applications that are as rich and functional as these are notoriously complex to build and maintain. The tangle of technologies that is used by these applications, such as Ajax, DHTML, and JavaScript, is such that you need specialist development expertise that focuses purely on client-side web technologies.
Silverlight solves this problem by bringing the managed code to client-side development. Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in that includes a lightweight version of the .NET Framework and delivers advanced functionality such as vector graphics, animation, and streaming media.
At the same time that client-side demands have increased, the complexity of the ASP.NET code on the server side has also increased. Enter the ASP.NET MVC framework. ASP.NET MVC applies the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern, which allows you to separate an application into three components: the Model, the View, and the Controller. This provides better testability of the front-end code and gives you full control over the behavior and output produced by your web ...
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