Silverlight 2 for Developers - TechEd New Zealand 2008

Silverlight 2 for Developers Jonas Follesø Senior Consultant Capgemini Session Code: WEB304

Agenda Blend 2.5 CRUD Designers Patterns Testing Q&A

Outside data Public Internet mashup APIs Existing Intranet services New services you build RSS/Atom Feeds Images Sounds Videos

A bit of history: Silverlight 1 JavaScript HTML ? AJAX (XmlHttpRequest) 1.0 <XAML/> Public Internet mashup APIs Existing Intranet services New services you build RSS/Atom Feeds Images Sounds Videos

Today: Silverlight 2 2 Managed Code (C#/VB) HTML Public Int e rnet mashup APIs Existing Intr a net services New services you build RSS/Atom Feeds Images Sounds Videos

Services that describe themselves Computer-Readable Metadata (e.g. WSDL) Automatic Proxy Generation WCF SOAP services in the enterprise Services for your Silverlight project ADO.NET Data Services SOAP services on the Internet

Securing Silverlight Services Silverlight will use auth. info in the browser HTML E.g.: ASP.NET Login User: Password : Credentials Auth info (e.g. cookie) Service calls + Auth info Silverlight code does not normally deal with credentials… DiveLog.com …/Login.aspx ../MyApp.aspx ../MyService.svc

HTTP Requests in Silverlight HttpWebRequest High-level components and User Code Browser Plugin APIs Web Browser - Cookies - Authenticated sessions - Caching - Proxy server to use Windows/Mac Networking Layer Restrictions Restrictions

Blend – The dark is not that scary…

Everything in code behind …is probably not a good idea

A team of sad coders and designers

Different people reading about MVC in different places take different ideas from it and describe these as “MVC”. Martin Fowler, GUI Architectures Essay

Separated Presentation Patterns

Data & Domain Logic (Model) UI (View) Interaction (Controller/Presenter)

Represent the state and behavior of the presentation independently of the GUI controls used in the interface. Martin Fowler, Presentation Model Essay

Makes your app easier to design …makes the designers like you

Everything in code-behind Data Model View XAML Code-Behind Event Handlers

Presentation Model Change notification Data-binding and commands Data Model View XAML Code-Behind Presentation Model State + Operations

Dive Log Presentation Model Change notification Data-binding and commands Dive Log Service Dive Log XAML Code-Behind Dive Log View Model State + Operations

Data Binding Implement INotifyPropertyChanged and use ObservableCollection<T> for collections View < ListBox ItemsSource ="{Binding Path=Dives}" SelectedItem ="{Binding Path=SelectedDive, Mode=TwoWay}" /> Presentation Model State + Operations

Data Binding Implement INotifyPropertyChanged and use ObservableCollection<T> for collections View XAML Code-Behind Presentation Model public class PageViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged { public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; public ObservableCollection < Dive > Dives { ... } public Dive SelectedDive { ... } }

IValueConverter Converts data bound values E.g. Bind temperature to color public object Convert( object , value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture) { int temp = System. Convert .ToInt32(value); Color color = Colors .Black; if (temp < 5) color = Colors .Blue; else if (temp < 20) color = Colors .Yellow; else color = Colors .Red; return new SolidColorBrush (color); } View < UserControl.Resources > < demo:ColorConverter x:Key ="colorConverter" /> </ UserControl.Resources > < TextBox Text ="{Binding Temperature, Mode=TwoWay}" Background ="{Binding Temperature, Converter={StaticResource colorConverter}}"/>

User Interaction But what about Word? View private void btnSave_Clicked( object sender, ExecutedEventArgs e) { (( PageViewModel )DataContext).Save(); }

Objects are used to represent actions. A command object encapsulates an action and its parameters. This allows a decoupling of the invoker of the command and the handlers of the command.

Commands in Silverlight View < Button Content ="Save Dives" input:CommandService.Command ="SaveDives" /> Presentation Model public PageViewModel() { Commands .SaveDives.Executed += new EventHandler < ExecutedEventArgs >(SaveDives); } private void SaveDives( object sender, ExecutedEventArgs e) { // code to save dives.. }

The strategy pattern is a software design pattern, whereby algorithms can be selected at runtime . Presentation Model public PageViewModel() { if ( HtmlPage .IsEnabled) { client = new DiveLogServiceClient (); } else { client = new ServiceStub (); } }

Dealing with dependencies The Presentation Model is coupled with both the stub service and the real service. Makes code less flexible for change Makes code harder to test Object should not be responsible for creating their own dependencies – Inversion of Control

Dependency Injection (DI) One form of Inversion of Control (IoC) Create dependencies outside the object and, inject them into it But who creates the dependency? Presentation Model public PageViewModel( IDiveLogServiceClient proxy) { this. proxy = proxy }

Dependency Injection by hand Should the page be responsible for creating dependencies? View public Page() { InitializeComponent(); if ( HtmlPage .IsEnabled) this .DataContext = new PageViewModel ( new DiveLogServiceClient ()); else this .DataContext = new PageViewModel ( new ServiceStub ()); }

IoC Containers Presentation Model [ Inject ] public PageViewModel( IDiveLogServiceClient proxy) { this. proxy = proxy } View public Page() { InitializeComponent(); IKernel iocContainer = new StandardKernel (); this .DataContext = iocContainer.Get< PageViewModel >(); }

IoC Containers What about design time support in Blend? Need to find a way to use IoC and set DataContext declaratively… View < UserControl.DataContext > < dive:PageViewModel /> </ UserControl.DataContext >

Testing Silverlight Code The standard solutions do not apply The Silverlight CLR is a subset All networking is asynchronous But it’s still familiar… [TestClass], [TestMethod], [Asynchronous]

Asynchronous Tests How do we “wait” before doing assertions?

Resources www.microsoft.com/teched Tech·Talks Tech·Ed Bloggers Live Simulcasts Virtual Labs http://microsoft.com/technet Evaluation licenses, pre-released products, and MORE! http://microsoft.com/msdn Developer’s Kit, Licenses, and MORE!

Related Content Code and lots of good resources on http://jonas.follesoe.no WEB311 Designing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 Wednesday, 3-9-2008 14:20 - 15:35, NZ Room 4, SkyCity Hands-on Labs (session codes and titles)

Track Resources WEB311 Designing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 Wednesday, 3-9-2008 14:20 - 15:35, NZ Room 4, SkyCity

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