Developers who are interested in developing data-driven applications or who communicate with web services with Silverlight 2 will benefit from reading this book. This book focuses on planning and developing applications that present data, save data, and manipulate data with Silverlight 2. Whereas other books may focus on advanced animations and graphical spectaculars that can truly inspire artistic creativity, this book targets users who want to use Silverlight 2 to build applications that perform data-centric and business logic functions with robust user interfaces. You can use Silverlight 2 to build any business application that will operate over the Internet. Although Silverlight is great for web-based applications, using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XBAP applications is a solid and arguably better alternative for intranet-based applications.
The controls from the examples in this book use templates and styles that are elegant, are robust, are changeable, and most importantly, support business functionality. This book can serve as a reference for you to fall back on for certain scenarios; however, its true value is in demonstrating how to solve real problems that involve writing data-driven solutions with Silverlight 2.
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