Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
by John Papa
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Author: John PapaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-29
ISBN: 0596523092
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Book Review: Essential for any Silverlight 2 developer
Summary: 4 Stars
Developers and businesses alike are starting to see the benefits of Silverlight 2 and more and more are starting to take advantage of it's capabilities. Most web-developers have a good knowledge of Microsoft's .Net platform, they also have good knowledge of HTML, CSS and all the other technologies surrounding the web. However presentation fairly much still is lacking on the web front, even with the acceptance of AJAX, it's still like an amateurs representation of the Mona Lisa compared with the desktop cousins. The first version of Silverlight was mainly geared towards video and audio and was restricted to the Javascript language. With the introduction of Silverlight 2, you now have pre-built controls at your disposal, C# and VB.Net programming access and a whole lot more. The painting has now gone from being amateurish to professional but still not quite the original. Now however developers can re-use their existing .Net Framework knowledge without having to learn another language like Flash and have a rich user experience. One thing that you will definitely need is data. Data is king in any application and gaining access to your data is what this book is all about.
Silverlight 2 introduced various ways in which you can gain access to your data, through RESTful web services, SOAP, RSS, AtomPub, POX, JSON, direct from a backend database etc. etc. You can write your own data layers or bind directly to controls and can even use LINQ.
John Papa takes you by the hand and shows you how to do all of the above scenarios and more. The book is very well written, easy to read and understand and no filler (something I'm really disliking about certain books, putting filler in just to increase page count).
There are whole chapters dedicated to each of the main ways to gain access to your data and bind it to your front end application with numerous examples throughout including how to read Tweets, access and consume Amazon RESTful services, the ADO.Net Entity Framework etc. If there is a way to access data you will find out how to incorporate that into your Silverlight 2 application with this book. And of course, you can also take the techniques John has so masterfully expounded on in this book and use them in your standard ASP.Net web sites as well.
If you're a Silverlight developer, this is one of those must have books. You'll refer to it over and over. Even if you're a standard ASP.Net developer it is worth taking a look through this book as most of the content can very easily be applied to a normal ASP.Net site.
Summary of Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:- Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects
- Learn how Silverlight 2 applications bind, pass, read, save, query and present data
- Discover how your application can call web services to work with SOAP, REST, RSS, AtomPub, POX and JSON Design REST, ASMX, and WCF web services that communicate with Silverlight 2
- Harness RESTful web services such as Digg, Amazon and Twitter
- Retrieve and save data using the new Entity Framework and WCF
- Work with RESTful ADO.NET Data Services and its Silverlight client library to move data between your Silverlight application and database
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers many tips and tricks for building data-rich business applications, and covers the scenarios you're most likely to encounter. Complete examples in C# and VB can be downloaded from the books companion website.
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