Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
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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.

Author: John Papa
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Customer Reviews
  • The SL2 book every business developer must own!
    This book does an excellent job of bringing it all together. It is very practical in that it reads like an extended tutorial. The chapters 2-4 will introduce you to XAML binding and all the wonderful things it brings us. The rest of the book really build on this showing you how to connect and bind data from all kinds of services. <br /> <br />Prior to reading this book, I was not all that well-versed in WCF. After reading it I feel very comfortable with using WCF to build numerous styles of "web services." It also does an excellent job making you well-versed in ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) presenting material I hadn't seen elsewhere. <br /> <br />This book will also give you a good foundation in LINQ to Entities/Entities Framework (as well as LINQ to SQL). <br /> <br />Not only that it's an easy read. You'll find yourself quickly finding reasons for using all these new technologies (Silverlight 2, Web Services, and Entities Framework). <br /> <br />Again, this is the book you will want to own.
  • Highly recommended for LOB app developers
    Finished the book! I highly recommend this book to anyone doing (or wanting to do) LOB apps involving Silverlight 2. Ch. 5/6's treatment of SOAP apps w/ASMX&WCF was well-written. Ch. 7-9 examples - digg, Amazon, and twitter - gave good coverage of RESTful services. I skimmed over Ch. 10 - RSS/Atom - because I wanted to focus on Ch. 11 - ADO.NET Data Services and Entity Framework. I was certainly not disappointed. Overall, this is a great book! Examples of how LINQ to SQL/XML/JSON works + WCF/REST are worth the book's price.
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