Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to address some of the major issues that are common in enterprise software. The designer/developer workflow will improve the efficiency of the teams working on the project. Printing is a very common requirement, and Silverlight provides all of the support you need to design and produce professional reports. Localization provides support for multiple languages and cultures.

Silverlight has built-in support for both modularity and extensibility. Using these features, you can easily architect a solution that is ready to scale. You also learned how to tackle a very common scenario in Line of Business applications: managing extremely large data sets. I covered concurrency and synchronization and then concluded by sharing the strategy I use for POCs.