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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

Managed Extensibilty Framework (MEF)


When implementing a Silverlight application, some doubts, such as the following can arise:

  • How can the different modules be decoupled? Is there an easy way to replace modules, keeping interdependence? Moreover, it would be interesting to replace modules with others containing hardcoded data, so as to perform unitary tests easily.

  • It would be great for my application to be extensible, and even better if third-party developers could couple their developments to my project easily.

  • I would like to control the size of the application XAP and load modules on demand.

It is possible to implement our own functionality in order to give support to these points, but it is not always practical (similar to what happened when analysing MVVM Light Toolkit). There are libraries and frameworks such as MEF, which already cover these features.

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Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) offers discovery and composition capabilities, which we can make use of in order to load application...

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