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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

By : Johnny Tordgeman
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MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide

4.8 (5)
By: Johnny Tordgeman

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive applications for many screens across the Web, desktop, and mobile devices. Silverlight is also a great (and growing) Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. Silverlight is based on familiar .NET languages such as C# which enables existing .NET developers to get started developing rich internet applications almost immediately. "MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide" will show you how to prepare for and pass the (70-506): TS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development exam.Packed with practical examples and Q&As, MCTS: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Development (70-506) Certification Guide starts by showing you how to lay out a user interface, enhance the user interface, implement application logic, work with data and interact with a host platform amongst others.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface

Chapter 5. Working with Data

Data makes the world go round. I'm sure you have heard this phrase before, and Silverlight is no stranger to that saying. Silverlight offers a rich platform for working with data, and in this chapter, we are going to cover it thoroughly. We will discuss data binding, a major concept for working with data in Silverlight. We will then move on to discussing data formatting and value converters; and finish off with data validation, which is something that no data-driven application is complete without.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Implementing data binding

  • Formatting data

  • Creating and consuming value converters

  • Implementing data validation

Implementing data binding

Data binding, at its core, provides a simple way for a Silverlight developer to work with data by separating the display module from the data management module. By establishing a connection between data objects from the backend and the UI layer, you get a mechanism that lets you update...

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