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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

You're reading from   Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action Develop a full LOB Silverlight 5 application from scratch with the help of expert advice and an accompanying case study with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683548
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Express Introduction to Silverlight FREE CHAPTER 2. Forms and Browsing 3. Data Binding 4. Architecture 5. RIA Services Data Access 6. Out of Browser (OOB) Applications 7. Testing your LOB Application 8. Error Control 9. Integration with other Web Applications 10. Consuming Web Services 11. Security Index

RIA Services pieces


Let us begin by defining RIA Services.

Formal definition (http://bit.ly/nmrOA9):

Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

Now, we will define it more informally, according to our experience. The most usual case is that we have a database, probably running under SQL Server, and we create an Entity Framework model. If we limit ourselves to the server, it could be possible to throw queries from here and everything will be ready. What happens when using Silverlight? These are executed in a client machine within a sandbox, and are not able...

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