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If you need to solve enterprise software development challenges such as validation, caching, logging, and exception handling in your Silverlight line-of business applications, the Silverlight Integration Pack for Enterprise Library 5.0 can help. It provides guidance and reusable Silverlight components designed to encapsulate recommended practices that facilitate consistency, ease of use, integration, and extensibility. It also helps you port your existing line-of-business applications that already use Enterprise Library to Silverlight. Note that the integration pack does not cover Silverlight for Windows Phone. This guide will help you make the most of the Silverlight Integration Pack for Enterprise Library 5.0. It is focused on the desktop Silverlight platform and comes with an accompanying reference implementation to demonstrate how you can leverage Enterprise Library in a Silverlight application. It covers the Validation, Caching, Logging, Exception Handling, and Policy Injection Application Blocks. Each chapter contains an overview of an application block, various techniques for applying the block, and a description of how that block was applied in the reference implementation so you can begin realizing the benefits of the Silverlight Integration Pack for Enterprise Library 5.0. This guide primarily targets software developers and software architects who are building LOB applications in Silverlight. It assumes you have a basic understanding of Silverlight. In certain instances, it will also describe how you can use Enterprise Library to extend technologies such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), WCF RIA Services and WCF Data Services.