Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – May 22-23, 2010

Bloated Dew Drop today since I was unable to get one out on Friday. Tomorrow morning should be a light one.

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Beautiful Code

 

 

Dew Drop – April 30, 2010

 

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Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

 

 

Morning Dew Quick Review – ‘Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2’ by John Papa

 

If you are looking to build a business-focused application with Silverlight, chances are you are going to need to access data of some sort. This is the best book I have found to address this aspect of Silverlight development.

Virtually every method of data access currently available in Silverlight is covered here: LINQ, REST, WCF and more.

I read the book cover-to-cover, but I think it will serve best as a reference guide while developing line-of-business apps with Silverlight. Most of what you see written about Silverlight focuses on shiny UIs. This book gives you what you really need to build RIAs for real business requirements.

Definitely recommended.

 

 

 

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