The Using CSLA 4 ebook series will teach you how to use CSLA 4 to create powerful object-oriented business layers for your applications, as well as specifically demonstrating how to create Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET MVC and Windows Phone 7 applications using your business layer. This is a series of several PDF ebooks, and you can purchase the series, or each book individually.

Here is the outline for the series:

1. Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview
   1. Introduction and Installation
   2. Architecture and Philosophy
   3. CSLA .NET framework design overview
2. Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects
   1. Stereotypes
      1. Editable root/child
      2. Editable root/child list
      3. Dynamic list/root
      4. Read-only
      5. Read-only list
      6. NameValueList
      7. Command
      8. Unit of Work
   2. Object metastate
      1. IsNew, IsDirty, IsValid, etc.
   3. Property declarations
      1. PropertyInfo metastate field
      2. Managed backing fields
      3. Private backing fields
      4. Child object references
      5. Lazy loading of child objects
   4. Business rules
      1. Business rules
      2. Validation rules
      3. Authorization rules
      4. Sync/async rules
      5. DataAnnotations attributes
3. Using CSLA 4: Data access
   1. Data access models
      1. DP_XYZ invoking DAL
      2. Factory objects as DAL
      3. DP_XYZ as DAL
      4. Factory objects invoking DAL
   2. Data access technologies
      1. ADO.NET
      2. ADO.NET Entity Framework
4. Using CSLA 4: Data Portal
   1. Data portal

      1. 1-, 2-tier deployment

      2. 3-tier deployment

      3. 4-tier (Silverlight, WP7) deployment

         1. MobileFactory

      4. Configuring the client

      5. Configuring the server

1. IIS
2. Windows Server AppFabric
3. Windows Azure
4. Using compression in Silverlight
1. Authentication
   1. MembershipProvider authentication
   2. Windows authentication
   3. Custom authentication
   4. IAuthorizeDataPortal
1. Using CSLA 4: Silverlight 4 and WPF
   1. Development basics
      1. WPF
      2. Silverlight
   2. MVVM design pattern
      1. Basic XAML Framework (Bxf)
      2. TriggerAction
   3. Data binding
   4. ViewModelBase/ViewModel
   5. PropertyInfo/PropertyStatus
   6. Platform specifics
      1. WPF
      2. Silverlight
2. Using CSLA 4: ASP.NET MVC 3
   1. ASP.NET MVC development basics
   2. Controller (Csla.Web.Mvc)
   3. CslaModelBinder
   4. Html authorization helpers
3. Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone 7
   1. WP7 development basics
   2. MVVM design pattern
      1. Basic XAML Framework (Bxf)
      2. TriggerAction
   3. Data binding
   4. ViewModelBase/ViewModel
   5. PropertyInfo