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PHP and Silverlight<br />

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Who are we?<br />Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmen<br />E-mail: maarten.balliauw@realdolmen.com<br />Blog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be<br />Twitter: http://twitter.com/maartenballiauw<br />Kevin Dockx – RealDolmen<br />E-mail:kevin.dockx@realdolmen.com<br />Blog: http://kevindockx.blogspot.com<br />Twitter:<br />http://twitter.com/kevindockx<br />

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Agenda <br />What is Silverlight?<br />WhySilverlight?<br />WhySilverlight and PHP?<br />Building anapplicationusingboth<br />More onSilverlight<br />Q&A<br />

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What is Silverlight?<br />RichApplications are the future, today<br />AdobeFlex<br />Microsoft Silverlight<br />Silverlight<br />“A frameworkforprovidingrichapplications to the browser”<br />“A cross-browser, cross-platformimplementation of the .NET Frameworkfor building and delivering the nextgeneration of Rich Internet Applicationsfor the web”<br />

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What is Silverlight?<br />4-5 MB plugin<br />Download once, distributedthrough Windows Update<br />Alsoavailableon Linux (Moonlight) and Mac<br />Runs in browser, on the client<br />Internet Explorer<br />Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome<br />Subset of the full .NET Framework<br />Originatedfrom Windows Presentation Foundation<br />Rich UI: XAML / .NET code: C# - VB.NET<br />

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WhySilverlight?<br />HTML / PHP / ASPX / AJAX<br />Best days are over…<br />Extending HTML (CSS 3, AJAX, …)<br />“like putting lipstick on a pig”<br />Silverlight<br />Stateful model <br />.NET Framework<br />UI Capabilities<br />Cross-platform<br />

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Why Silverlight and PHP?<br />Best of bothworlds?<br />PHP<br />Rapidapplicationprogramming<br />Ideal as back-endusing JSON or SOAP<br />Re-useyourexisting PHP logic<br />Silverlight<br />Rapid user interface development<br />Createrich interfaces using a richframework<br />

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Programming Silverlight<br />XAML<br />“an XML file thatdefines user interfaces”<br />Tool: ExpressionBlend (orEclipse)<br />.NET<br />Richframeworkofferingendlesspossibilities<br />Tool: Microsoft Visual Studio (2008, .NET 3.5, SP1) (orEclipse)<br />PHP<br />i.e. Zend Framework<br />Tool: Zend Studio (orEclipse PDT)<br />  Strong separation of UI design & logic<br />

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GettingStarted<br />Visual Studio 2008 SP1<br />Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1<br />VS2008 Updates<br />Project Templates<br />Runtime<br />SDK<br />ExpressionBlend 2.0 SP1<br />Possibility: Eclipse4SL - http://www.eclipse4sl.org/<br />Use Web Platform Installer (www.microsoft.com/web)<br />

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Underactivedevelopment (ongoing)<br />Catching up Visual Studio 2008 Silverlighteditingpossibilities<br />Butjustlike VS2008: stillnot the rich designer thatExpressionBlend is…<br />Currently Win & Mac<br />V1.0 releasedtoday! Includes full SL debugging.<br />http://www.eclipse4sl.org<br />

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Why Eclipse4SL?<br />AllowsEclipsedevelopers to buildRIA withSilverlight<br />AllowsCollaborationbetween<br />Web Designers<br />.NET Developers<br />EclipseDevelopers(Java, PHP, ..)<br />Eclipse Developer<br />Common Project System<br />.NET Developer<br />Web Designer<br />

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DEMO<br />Editing a Silverlightsolution<br />

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Whataboutmy data?<br />Silverlight does notinclude data namespaces (clienttech)!<br />For most apps, thisforcesyou to use a Service OrientedArchitecture<br />

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Communicating with data services<br />Silverlightincludes support for<br />WebClient, WebHttpRequest-classes<br />REST, JSON, SOAP, …<br />Windows Communication Foundation<br />… almostany kind of service canbeaccessed<br />Preferredway to communicate: through WCF<br />BasicHttpBinding (BinaryEncoding)<br />

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Zend Framework SOAP<br />What you would expect…<br />

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Zend Framework SOAP<br />Reality…<br />

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Zend Framework SOAP<br />Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover<br />Generates valid SOAP 1.2<br />Generates almost valid “WS-I Basic Profile 1.1”<br />SilverlightStrategy to fix this<br />Zend_Soap_Server<br />Almost works with WS-I basic Profile 1.1 WSDL<br />DocumentLiteralProxy to fix this<br />

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Communicatingwith SOAP service<br />CrossDomain.xml / ClientAccessPolicy.xml<br />Tells SL it/whocanaccess the service<br />Addreference to generate proxy, and initialize<br />Addhandler to completedevent<br />Call service method (Async)<br />

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DEMO<br />BarTender – Communicatingwith service<br />

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Keywords when working with data<br />DataContext<br />DataBinding<br />INotifyPropertyChanged/CollectionChanged<br />ValueConverters<br />

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What else is there?<br />Localization<br />Isolated Storage<br />

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Resources – Silverlight toolkit<br />Containscontrols, components, utilities to use in SL apps (MS, sourceavailable)<br />AutoCompleteBox, different Panel controls, UpDowncontrol, Treeview, Expander, …<br />Charting component<br />ImplicitStyleManager<br />Variousthemesincluded<br />http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight<br />

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Resources<br />http://silverlight.net/<br />http://codeplex.com/Silverlight<br />http://silverlightdragdrop.codeplex.com<br />

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Questions, possiblyAnswers<br />?<br />

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