Silverlight 5 Development training course

Course Detail

Overviews

• Using Blend 
• Styles and Templates 
• Using Sample Data 

Working with Services 

• Creating Services for Silverlight 
• Silverlight enabled WCF services
• RESTful services with POX and JSON 
• Consuming Services 
• WCF, ASMX 
• WCF Data Services 
• Other Services (REST, POX) 
• Security restrictions 
• Duplex Polling Services 
• Working with Data 
• Using Entity Framework with Silverlight 
• Creating and exposing conceptual models to Silverlight 
• Making EF testable 

Using RIA Services for n-tier 

• Understanding .Net RIA Services 
• Pros and cons 
• Validation model and shared code 
• Creating RIA Services applications 
• Using the Data Form with Ria Services 
• Using RIA services with other data bound controls 

Silverlight Environment

• Hosting the Silverlight Control 
• File IO 
• Isolated Storage
• Out of Browser 
• Partial Trust

Silverlight Unit Testing 

• Installing the framework 
• Writing Unit Tests for Silverlight code 
• Adopting TDD and Silverlight 
• Testing User Interface

Model View ViewModel (MVVM)

• Understanding MVVM 
• Separation of Concerns
• ICommand Interface
• Using M-V-VM in Silverlight 

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

• Understanding MEF 
• Export and Import Attributes
• Composition
• Loading on Demand

PRISM (i.e. Composite Application Guidance)

• Understanding PRISM 
• Examining the parts of PRISM 
• Getting and installing Prism 
• Implementing PRISM in your Project 
• Pro and Cons 

Review and Summary

• Review of technologies and approaches
• Summary and a look to the future