Managing Data and Media in Silverlight 4: A Mashup of Chapters from Packt’s Bestselling Silverlight Books

Discover content in various easy-to-follow styles such as a recipe based cookbook format, a turotial based beginner’s guide, and a reference styled handbook. The aim of this book is to provide a lot of valuable content to you from various other Packt Silverlight books. It is designed in such a way that you can refer to topics chapter by chapter, and read them in no particular order. It offers clear examples to successfully perform the most important data related tasks in Silverlight. If you are a .NET developer who wants to manage professional data-driven applications with Sliverlight, then this book is for you. Basic experience of programming Silverlight and familiarity with accessing data using ADO.NET in normal .NET applications is required.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Layouts and General Content Organization
Chapter 2: Handling Data
Chapter 3: An Introduction to Data Binding
Chapter 4: Advanced Data Binding
Chapter 5: The Data Grid
Chapter 6: Talking to REST and WCF Data Services
Chapter 7: Interacting with Data on the SharePoint Server
Chapter 8: Interacting with Rich Media and Animations
Chapter 9: Data Access Strategies
Chapter 10: Building Dashboards in SharePoint and Silverlight
Chapter 11: Working with 3D Characters