Welcome, to the exciting world of building Rich Enterprise Dashboards with Silverlight. Throughout this book, you will learn how to harness the power of the Silverlight 5.0 platform to build amazing Dashboards. This book goes beyond just showing the nuts and bolts of learning Silverlight and showcases how to create amazing dashboards that offer the best user experience and visual design that will impress your end users and peers. What you need for this book To build the samples in this book, you will need to have the following available: • Visual Studio 2010 Express or Professional Edition • SQL Server 2008 R2 Express or Developer Edition • Silverlight 5.0 SDK • Silverlight 5.0 Toolkit • Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 (with Updates for Silverlight 5.0) • Share Point 2010 Foundations (Optional only required for Chapter 10, Building Dashboards in SharePoint and Silverlight)
Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend! Using Silverlight 4, you can build richer and more powerful applications than ever before, and deploy them seamlessly in browsers, on desktop computers, and even on Windows Phone 7. In Silverlight 4 Unlea…
A hands-on guide to Microsoft’s latest rich application development technology: Silverlight 4Silverlight 4 is the newest version of the rich Internet application toolkit that provides support for .NET capabilities over the Internet. With this latest release of Silverlight, Microsoft has revolutionized the way that Web applications can be created. T…
J. Ambrose Little, Jason Beres, Grant Hinkson, Devin Rader, Joe Croney
his valuable reference—in full color—explains the major new release of Silverlight 3 which is dramatically improved over previous versions and makes the development of powerful Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) achievable for everyone. Packed with examples and written by a highly-seasoned team of developers and designers, this book guides you th…
Jason Beres, Bill Evjen, Devin Rader, John Wiley, 2010
Everything .NET developers need to take advantage of Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 is a major new release of Microsoft′s flagship product for building rich, interactive applications that combine animation, graphics, audio, and video. This book, by seasoned Wrox authors and Silverlight experts, gives professional Web developers all the tools nec…
Cameron Albert, Frank LaVigne, Packt Publishing, 2010
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plug-in that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback–features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight makes possible the development of RIA applications in familiar .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET. Silverlight is a great (and growing) …
