Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards Book Released
Introduction
Almost a year and a half ago (as you can probably tell from my bio in the screenshot), I sat down and starting reviewing the Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards book. Fast forward to last month, this book became available for sale. It was a pleasure being part of the technical review for this book and I learned a lot of things throughout the review. I wanted to take a brief moment and tell you what the book has to offer.
But first, the Giveaway
I’ve got 3 copies of the eBook to give away – sorry no physical books. I know that a majority of people would rather have the electronic version where they can take it with them everywhere. All you have to do is leave a comment below where I can track you down. I’d also appreciate you leaving your twitter handle where I can send you a tweet. I will randomly select 3 winners on 2/29, so act fast.
Book Overview
Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business.
Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.
This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.
The Table of Contents
Below is a list of topics that the book covers with a link to a page with more information.
Chapter 1: The Silverlight Technology
Chapter 2: Overview of Dashboards and Silverlight
Chapter 3: Silverlight Design and Development Tools
Chapter 4: Building a Basic Dashboard
Chapter 5: Dashboard Types and User Needs
Chapter 6: Designing for Insight
Chapter 7: Designing your Dashboard
Chapter 8: Building an End-to-End Solution
Chapter 9: Data Access Strategies
Chapter 10: Building Dashboards in SharePoint and Silverlight
Snapshots of the Book
I decided to take a few snapshots of the book, mainly because I like to look back at things I have been involved in. :)
Wrap-up
Thanks to Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to review such a fantastic book. Also, thanks to you my loyal readers for reading my blog over the years and don’t forget to leave a comment below for a chance to win a copy of the eBook.
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Dear Michael, would love to have a copy if this e book. My twitter handle is @supreetsays Thanks Supreet :)
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Although most of the news are about HTML5 or WinRT now. But Silverlight is still the best platform for LOB app development. I would be happy to get your book! My Twitter account is @kimsk.
Matthew Overlund
Looking forward to reading this book and deploying a SL5 dashboard to our application users. We've just recently released an update to our application that publishes services necessary to expose dashboard data sources and I've been "shopping" around for a suitably flashy technology to really show off the dashboard capability in the product. This should work out nicely.
Twitter: @MOverlund
Matthew Overlund
Looking forward to reading this book and deploying a SL5 dashboard to our application users. We've just recently released an update to our application that publishes services necessary to expose dashboard data sources and I've been "shopping" around for a suitably flashy technology to really show off the dashboard capability in the product. This should work out nicely.
Twitter: @MOverlund
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Would love a copy of the book.
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Would like to receive a copy
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Tim Cochran
Looking forward to checking out the book. I'm in the middle of a LOB SL5 application now.
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Michael,
sounds interesting and useful,
would love to have a ecopy
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Ian Smith
Enjoy your tweets and interested to see the book even though all my clients seem to be moving/have moved to an HTML5 world away from Silverlight @FastAndFluid
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Long time follower of your blog and I have a learnt a lot from your articles. Would love to win and read the new book. Twitter handle is @jatinam Thanks Jatin
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Congrats. I'm looking forward to the read. @intranoggin
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Congrats on the release! Twitter handle is @Rogue__Leader and I would truly appreciate the book. Thank you.
Dave
Sounds interesting. I wouldn't mind a copy. @davemdavis
Damodaran Venkatesan
Working on building dashboards now. I would be very interested to check this one out. Silverlight is pretty good to use for visualization. My twitter handle is @vdamu.
erwin
Let's show everyone Silverlight is a good platform for LOB applications! Twitterhandle is @erwin8.
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Twitter: @RonPuckett
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Richard Reukema
Why can't the MS marketing machine get behind Silverlight is beyond me when it has so much to offer enterprises. I always push silverlight as a platform for LOB applications for it's accessibility and maintainability. Would love to read this book! Plz email me for my twitter handle, I don't want/need the spam!
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