Create feature rich Dashboards with new book on Microsoft Silverlight 5
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Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise tutorial from Packt, filled with features to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for businesses.
Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback – features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. Despite the advent of alternative technologies such as html 5, the current business case for using Silverlight remains strong, both in public and private applications - and the new features of Silverlight 5 provide opportunities to develop more exciting and advanced end user experiences.
This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.
This tutorial helps to understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and Odata). Readers will learn to host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model. With the help of Microsoft Expression Blend they will be shown how to use reference resources, and edit basic control templates.
Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a new addition to Packt’s ever growing catalogue of Microsoft Silverlight books and e-books. Fore more information on this book, please visit: Packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-5-for-enterprise-dashboards/book