Data Services with Silverlight 2 by John Papa

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  • Pub. Date: December 2008
  • 342pp
  • Sales Rank: 147,081

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    • Pub. Date: December 2008
    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 342pp
    • Sales Rank: 147,081

    Synopsis

    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 support, cross-domain web service calls, and Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Entity 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 a 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 book's companion website.

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    Biography

    Papa has been developing business solutions for e-Commerce, Internet and LAN/WAN based solutions since 1994. Johnny can regularly be found speaking at high-tech events as well as executive level conferences. He is known as an industry expert. Johnny is highly qualified in numerous technical areas such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, ADO, XML, MTS and IIS. He is certified in the critical technological areas of Microsoft solutions.

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    FIRING THE SILVERLIGHT 2 BULLET!!by INDEPENDENTREVIEWER

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    January 26, 2009: Are you a developer who is interested in developing data-driven applications or who communicates with web services with Silverlight 2? If you are, then this book is for you. Author John Papa, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that focuses on planning and developing applications that present data, save data, and manipulate data with Silverlight 2.


    Papa, begins by covering the steps to develop applications with Silverlight 2 and explains the various tools and their purposes. Then, the author discusses different ways to use data binding with XAML and with .NET code in Silverlight 2. Next, he demonstrates situations in which different binding modes can be most beneficial when used with objects and controls. The author also explores various techniques for binding and presenting lists of data in list-based controls. He continues by demonstrating how to communicate between Silverlight 2 applications and WCF services­both custom and from third parties. Then, the author shows you how to send and retrieve custom domain entities filled from ADO.NET-driven data mappers in the middle tier, and expose them through WCF contracts and serialization techniques. Next, he discusses how to consume and present data retrieved from REST services and manipulate it using LINQ to XML. The author continues by demonstrating how to send and receive data using the RESTful API exposed by the Amazon E-Commerce service. He also discusses how to build a RESTful service with which Silverlight 2 applications can communicate. Then, the author explains issues with consuming syndicated feeds from Silverlight 2 applications and how to overcome them. Finally. the author demonstrates how ADO.NET Data Services is uniquely qualified to pass data to and from Silverlight 2 applications using REST-style web services.


    This most excellent book arms the reader with the knowledge to build visually and functionally robust applications with Silverlight 2. Most importantly though, this great book solves a number of problems that developers frequently encounter.

    If you are transferring data to and from silverlight you need this book.by Ken_Tucker

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    January 23, 2009: This books shows several different ways to pass data to a silverlight app. It shows how to create the service and how to consume the data in silverlight. This is one of the books every silverlight developer should have