
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
John Papa(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-0-596-52309-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-596-52309-1 (9780596523091)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

John Papa
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
Data Access and Web Services for Rich Internet Applications
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
O'Reilly
€29.49
Available for download

John Papa
Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
Data Access and Web Services for Rich Internet Applications
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
O'Reilly
€37.49
Available for download
Person
John Papa is a Microsoft C# MVP, MCSD.NET, and INETA Speaker who has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies focusing on architecture, patterns and practices, data access and mobile development. John has authored or co-authored several books on data access technologies, is the author of the "Data Points" column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as DevConnections and VSLive. You can contact John at www.johnpapa.net.