November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
17h 57m
English
book
Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight®: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPs
by Bill Evjen, Dominick Baier, György Balássy, Gill Cleeren, David Giard, Alex Golesh, Kevin Grossnicklaus, Caleb Jenkins, Jeffrey Juday, Vishwas Lele, Jeremy Likness, Scott Millett, Christian Nagel, Christian Weyer, Daron Yöndem
Content preview from Real World .NET 4, C#, and Silverlight®: Indispensible Experiences from 15 MVPsBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
4
How to Build a Real World Silverlight 5 Application
by Gill Cleeren
With the introduction of Silverlight, Microsoft made its entry in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) space. Previously, this market segment was dominated by technologies such as Adobe Flash. After being announced in 2007, Silverlight quickly evolved from a pure JavaScript-oriented development model in version 1, over a .NET-based model since version 2, into a rich platform ready for line-of-business (LOB) application development in versions 3 to 5. Today, Silverlight is installed on more than 70 percent (according to www.riastats.com) of all PCs, and this adoption keeps climbing. Not only is it a framework to build RIAs, it also has become the de facto framework for building applications for Windows Phone 7.
As mentioned, since version 2, Silverlight applications can be built using .NET. Both C# and VB.NET can be used as development language. On the other hand, XAML is used to create (in a declarative manner) the user interface. The XAML language was introduced with WPF at the time of .NET 3.0. Therefore, the learning curve for Silverlight for most .NET developers is not steep — you can leverage a lot of your knowledge.
Although you can fall back on many things you already know from “regular” .NET, Silverlight applications have their peculiarities. This chapter provides an overview of some issues you'll face when you leave the paved road of “demoware” (although this is not a real word, it is used here to reference ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.