Figure 1.1 Microsoft Surface home page: an example of an RIA
Figure 1.2 Key attributes of Web 2.0
Figure 1.3 Traditional (thin client) web-based application architecture
Figure 1.5 The five dimensions of application usability
Figure 1.6 eBay desktop application developed using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR
Figure 1.8 Olympics Silverlight plug-in on the MSN web site
Figure 1.10 Silverlight architecture
Figure 1.11 Microsoft Silverlight 2 XAML UI controls
Figure 1.12 XAML voting screen of the Silverlight web application
Figure 1.13 Silverlight data binding
Figure 2.2 My Album user interface framework definition
Figure 2.3 My Album RIA in full-screen mode
Figure 2.4 The My Album RIA layout design and specifications
Figure 2.5 Application window background
Figure 2.6 My Album application title screenshot
Figure 2.7 My Album application with categories
Figure 2.8 Accessing Expression Blend within a Visual Studio Silverlight project
Figure 2.9 Setting up Rectangle.Fill with LinearGradientBrush
Figure 2.10 Application with populated title and categories
Figure 2.11 Designing the preview pane using Expression Blend
Figure 2.12 Pen tool of Expression Blend
Figure 2.13 Expression Blend Designer displays grid lines to define the control position easily.
Figure 2.14 Setting up the Previous symbol's properties using Expression Blend
Figure 2.15 Transforming objects using Expression Blend
Figure 2.16 Setting up common properties of the object using Expression Blend
Figure 2.17 Application with the preview pane
Figure 2.18 The Asset Library button displays the Asset Library in Expression Blend.
Figure 2.19 Asset Library controls in Expression Blend
Figure 2.20 Drawing a picture container using the Image control
Figure 2.21 DrawingEllipse control for the Play/Stop symbols
Figure 2.22 Defining brushes for the Ellipse control
Figure 2.23 Defining the appearance of the Stop symbol
Figure 2.24 Play/Stop symbol for the My Album RIA
Figure 2.25 Importing media files using Expression Encoder
Figure 2.26 The Item tab displaying imported media files
Figure 2.27 The Output tab defining encoding properties of imported media files
Figure 2.28 Setting up the Thumbnail section within the Output tab
Figure 2.29 Setting up the Job Output section within the Output tab
Figure 2.30 Adding image files to the Silverlight Project
Figure 2.31 Adding video files to the Silverlight project
Figure 2.32 My Album application code-behind events integration
Figure 2.33 Defining events for the Pictures category using Microsoft Expression Blend
Figure 2.34 Defining events for the Videos category using Microsoft Expression Blend
Figure 2.35 Defining XAML control properties using Expression Blend
Figure 2.36 XAML controls event integration using Expression Blend
Figure 2.37 Binding event handlers to the object using Expression Blend
Figure 2.38 Defining individual file deployment behavior using the Build Action property
Figure 2.39 Different options for the Build Action property
Figure 2.42 Creating a new Silverlight application on the Microsoft Silverlight Streaming Server
Figure 2.43 Creating a manifest for the Silverlight application
Figure 2.44 A message indicating the successful creation of your Silverlight application manifest
Figure 2.45 Configuring the Silverlight application
Figure 3.1 Enterprise 2.0: the big picture
Figure 3.2 Key elements of Enterprise 2.0
Figure 3.3 Refined elements of Enterprise 2.0
Figure 3.5 The four dimensions of BEAs to achieve maximum ROI
Figure 3.6 Seven key principles for building RIAs as SaaS
Figure 3.7 Device-and platform-independent Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 applications
Figure 3.8 Architecture components for enterprise RIAs
Figure 3.9 Application architecture of the My Album RIA developed in Chapter 2
Figure 3.10 Enterprise RIA architecture of the My Album RIA
Figure 4.2 Service integration based on SOA
Figure 4.3 Service definition and Web Service definition
Figure 4.4 SOA concept for Microsoft Silverlight-based RIAs
Figure 4.5 Seven key principles for building RIAs as SaaS
Figure 4.6 Dimensions of usability
Figure 4.7 Characteristics of flexibility
Figure 4.9 Dimensions of simplicity
Figure 4.10 Advantages of reusability
Figure 4.11 Dimensions of scalability
Figure 4.12 Vertical and horizontal scaling to improve scalability
Figure 4.13 Dimensions of maintainability
Figure 4.14 Dimensions of security
Figure 4.16 Building loosely coupled Silverlight user interface
Figure 4.17 Horizontal and vertical dynamic tabs
Figure 5.1 The My Album RIA developed in Chapter 2 using Silverlight
Figure 5.2 The Enterprise Training Portal RIA
Figure 5.3 Application architecture of the Enterprise Training Portal RIA
Figure 5.4 The Enterprise Training Portal RIA UI framework layout design and specifications
Figure 5.5 Silverlight XAML control class diagram for the Enterprise Training Portal RIA
Figure 5.8 Demonstrating how to define and apply style to the Button control
Figure 5.10 The Slider control has four distinct parts.
Figure 5.11 Different states of the CheckBox control
Figure 5.12 Two different state groups of the CheckBox control
Figure 5.13 State transition of the CheckBox control
Figure 5.14 States management window in Microsoft Expression Blend
Figure 5.15 Changing the generic.xaml file to a resource file
Figure 5.16 Generic structured template for a typical Silverlight custom control
Figure 5.18 Adding the custom control to the Visual Studio Toolbox
Figure 5.19 Enterprise Training Portal project structure
Figure 5.20 getContents WCF service class diagram
Figure 5.21 Adding SQLDB.dbml LINQ to SQL classes mapped to relational objects
Figure 5.22 Creating data classes
Figure 5.23 Making the data class Serializable
Figure 5.24 Publishing the getContents WCF service
Figure 5.25 Adding the getContent WCF service as a reference
Figure 5.26 Changing the Collection type of the data service to support the List collection type
Figure 5.27 Class diagram of the tpDataLayer data access component
Figure 5.28 High-level class diagram of the Enterprise Training Portal RIA
Figure 5.29 User interface layout design of the left navigation pane
Figure 5.30 Class diagram of the panelMenu class
Figure 5.31 User interface layout design of the thumbnails to develop the preview pane
Figure 5.32 Class diagram of the thumbnails class
Figure 5.33 User interface layout design of the media player
Figure 5.34 Editing the control template using Expression Blend
Figure 5.35 Defining the style resource for the control template
Figure 5.36 Class diagram of the mediaSlider class
Figure 5.37 Class diagram of the mediaPlayer class
Figure 5.38 User interface layout design of the RSS feed viewer
Figure 5.39 Class diagram of the Rss2Reader class library project
Figure 5.40 Adjusting the default view of Deep Zoom images
Figure 5.41 Additional references and resource files for the TrainingPortal project
Figure 5.42 Enterprise Training Portal RIA in design view mode of the Page.xaml file
Figure 5.44 Deployment process for deploying the Enterprise Training Portal RIA
Figure 5.45 Deployed Enterprise Training Portal RIA on TechnologyOpinion.com
Figure 6.1 Silverlight SmartTabs project properties window
Figure 6.2 Silverlight SmartTabs application XAP package file
Figure 6.3 AppManifest.xaml of the SmartTabs application
Figure 6.4 Defining in-package/on-demand behavior using the Copy Local property of the assembly file
Figure 6.5 Setting the Build Action property of a resource file
Figure 6.6 Deploying and consuming a Silverlight application
Figure 7.1 Push architecture model
Figure 7.2 Pull architecture model
Figure 7.3 Store-and-forward synchronization model