Create feature rich Dashboards with new book on Silverlight 5 from Packt

Feb. 21, 2012 - PRLog -- Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise tutorial from Packt, filled with features to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for businesses.

Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards acts as a guide providing an overview of the Silverlight 5.0 Platform and the different tools needed to help developers build end-to-end amazing dashboard solutions, and how to choose the most appropriate dashboard type based on their project goals.

This tutorial helps to understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and Odata). Readers will learn to host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model. With the help of Microsoft Expression Blend they will be shown how to use reference resources, and edit basic control templates.

Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a new addition to Packt’s ever growing catalogue of Microsoft Silverlight books and e-books. More about this book can be read at http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-5-for-enter...