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Microsoft Press : Programming Windows Phone 7 with Sample Source Code

2011-08-20T18:11:00.001+05:00

Develop your first applications for Windows Phone 7 using Microsoft XNA and Silverlight—expertly guided by award-winning author Charles Petzold. This book is a gift from the Windows Phone 7 team and Microsoft Press to the programming community.
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 : Planning Guide

2010-12-03T12:10:00.000+05:00

This book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are planning a solution based on SharePoint Server 2010.

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MOSS Explained: An Information Worker's Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

2010-04-01T12:34:00.000+05:00

You've figured out the simple stuff.you can create a list, add some columns, and throw a Web Part on a page to display the list, but then what? Are you really taking advantage of everything SharePoint can do? This book will help you maximize all of SharePoint Server?s potential. Whether you are a business user just trying to get more value, a SharePoint administrator trying to figure out what can be done, or a developer trying to decide if custom development is necessary, this book can help you. This book is designed to help you create solutions and take your SharePoint sites further. It not only describes the more advanced functionality of SharePoint but also walks you through steps to actually implement the solution. Because both of the authors are current SharePoint consultants and trainers, the examples and solutions provided are based on timely experiences with clients and students in the classroom
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Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development Projects

2010-03-31T12:02:00.001+05:00

Agile Software Development: Best Practices for Large Software Development ProjectsSoftware Development is moving towards a more agile and more flexible approach.It turns out that the traditional `waterfall` model is not supportive in an environment where technical, financial and strategic constraints are changing almost every day. But what is agility? What are today?s major approaches? And
especially: What is the impact of agile development principles on the development teams, on project management and on software architects? How can large enterprises become more agile and improve their business processes, which have been existing since many, many years? What are the limitations of Agility? And what is the right balance between reliable structures and flexibility? This book will give answers to these questions. A strong emphasis will be on real life project examples, which describe how development teams have moved from a waterfall model towards an Agile Software Development approach.
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Teach Yourself Sharepoint 2007 in 24 Hours

2010-03-03T03:09:00.003+05:00

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation forged in both technology and business matters, allowing you to learn the essentials of SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks.The Q&A sections and quizzes at the end of each lesson help you build and test your knowledge.

Notes, Tips, and Cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid

Learn how to…

Explore and fully utilize all the core WSS 3.0 features
Install WSS 3.0 on different versions of Windows Server
Explore the interoperability between SharePoint and various Office 2003 and 2007 products
Create and enhance workflows
Manage user permissions at all levels
Enhance search functionality using Search Server 2008 Express
Create internal blogs using the Extended Blog Edition
Get your site up-and-running quickly with the Microsoft application templates
Enhance your site by utilizing free and commercial third-party web parts
Create sites in different languages

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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.Net Developers

2009-10-18T17:57:00.006+06:00

This book is aimed at .NET developers and architects who want to quickly get up to speed with all that Silverlight 2 has to offer. As well as covering the breadth of features that Silverlight 2 provides, this book makes a point of demonstrating where necessary how the particular feature can be integrated tightly with the ASP.NET host application. An example is in Chapter 7, where the ASP.NET Profile service is utilized directly from within Silverlight to obtain user-specific data.

It’s fair to say that although this book is aimed at ASP.NET developers, it covers all of the salient features of Silverlight 2 to the degree that it’s a useful programming resource for developers not using ASP.NET also. If you’re fresh to .NET development, however, you might want to check out a beginning .NET book first, to help you overcome the syntax and set-up queries when learning a new language. Otherwise, take a deep breath and dive in!
This book covers the full feature set of Silverlight 2, diving into each of the subject areas to give depth and breadth coverage. As well as teaching you about the component parts of the Silverlight API, the book also covers debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning your Silverlight applications, arming you with all the skills and knowledge you’ll need to create advanced Silverlight-based applications in record time.

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Programming .NET Security

2009-09-18T16:46:00.004+06:00

With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web-server based applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. It's one topic, in fact, that .NET forces you to address, since Microsoft has placed security-related features at the core of the .NET Framework.

Yet, because a developer's carelessness or lack of experience can still allow a program to be used in an unintended way, Programming .NET Security shows you how the various tools will help you write secure applications.

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Programming .NET Components

2009-09-16T16:38:00.001+06:00

Most books on object oriented programming go into the basics of encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance. It doesn't matter whether it's a strongly typed language like Java or C#, or a dynamically typed language like Python or PHP, the handling of object orientation follows a similar pattern. However, in the real world the challenges of maximising code reuse, easing maintenance and above all making software that is truly flexible requires code that is componentised - that is code that makes as much use of interfaces as it does object inheritance.

In the world of C# and .NET Juval Lowy's 'Programming .NET Components' is a classic title that both explains the techniques and which delves deep into topics not normally covered by most programming books. Now, with a second edition updated for .NET 2.0, that classic status is consolidated.

The opening chapter introduces 'component-based programming' which is contrasted with traditional 'object-oriented programming'. This explains the differences between the two and, just as importantly, explains the reasons for the differences. It's a fast chapter, but it sets the scene for the next two chapters which go into much more detail on the putting the principles into practice with C# and .NET. Note that while the majority of code is in C#, with the occasional example in VB, much of what the book is about applies to any of the other .NET languages.

Additional chapters cover life-cycle management, (including object finalisation and the minefields of deterministic finalisation), versioning, events, asynchronous calls, multi-threading, serialisation and object persistence, remoting, context and interception and finally a chapter on the vexed subject of security. Much of this material is not specific to component-based programming and applies equally to all forms of C# and/or .NET development.

The author assumes that the reader already has knowledge of C# and .NET, and it's therefore not really a book that one can easily recommend to the beginner. On the other hand it's most definitely a book pitched at the right level for the reader wanting to move into intermediate and advanced territory. Note that the book covers .NET 2.0 (and Visual Studio 2005, come to that), and there's an appendix that introduces generics for those readers switching up from 1.0. Also in an appendix is the IDesign C# coding standards document, which, along with the source code for the book, can be downloaded from the O'Reilly web site.

The only other thing to add is that the book is well-written. Even the most advanced topics are clearly explained, and there's judicious use of sample code to make things clearer.

This has been an influential book, and there's no reason to think that this new edition will be any less so. Despite the title, it's really a book on advanced C# development rather than being focussed just on components. Recommended.

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Professional .NET Framework 2.0

2009-09-15T16:27:00.008+06:00

As the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime (CLR) continue to mature in terms of platform adoption, robustness, reliability, and feature richness, developers have an increasing need to understand the foundation on top of which all managed code runs. This book looks at the underlying platform commonalities that all developers can use, regardless of language choice or development tools. This includes languages such as C#, Visual Basic,® C++/CLI, and others.

You'll begin with an in-depth look at CLR fundamentals. From there, you'll review first the Base Class Libraries (BCL) and then the more advanced Framework libraries that are commonly used in most managed applications. With an abundance of working code examples and unique depth of coverage, this book will quickly get you up to speed on what the .NET Framework and CLR 2.0 have to offer.
What you will learn from this book
Details of the CLR's architecture, including garbage collection, exceptions, just-in-time compilation, and the Common Type System
How assemblies work and options for deployment, from executables to shared to private libraries
Specific portions of the BCL, as well as advanced Framework libraries such as the new transaction libraries
Advanced services of the CLR, such as the secure programming model and forms of isolation and concurrency
How the CLR's rich metadata is used for dynamic programming and runtime code-generation
Who this book is for
This book is for developers experienced either with the Microsoft® (.NET 1.x, Win32, or COM) or Java platforms who want to understand and program with the .NET Framework and CLR.
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Professional .NET 2.0 Generics

2009-09-14T16:19:00.004+06:00

The power and elegance of generic types have long been acknowledged. Generics allow developers to parameterize data types much like you would parameterize a method. This brings a new dimension of reusability to your types without compromising expressiveness, type-safety, or efficiency. Now .NET generics makes this power available to all .NET developers. By introducing generic concepts directly into the Common Language Runtime (CLR), Microsoft has also created the first language-independent generics implementation. The result is a solution that allows generic types to be leveraged by all the languages of the .NET platform.This book explores all aspects of the .NET generics implementation, covering everything from fundamental generic concepts, to the elements of generic syntax, to a broader view of how and when you might apply generics. It digs into the details associated with creating and consuming your own generic classes, structures, methods, delegates, and interfaces, examining all the nuances associated with leveraging each of these language constructs. The book also looks at guidelines for working with generic types, the performance gains achieved with generics, the new generic container libraries (BCL and third party), and key aspects of the underlying .NET implementation.For those transitioning from C++, the book provides an in-depth look at the similarities and differences between templates and.NET generics. It also explores the syntactic variations associated with using generics with each of the .NET languages, including C#, Visual Basic, J#, and C++.

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.NET 2.0 Interoperability Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

2009-09-13T16:09:00.008+06:00

.NET represents a new and improved way of developing software for the Windows platform. Given the chance, youd probably rewrite all of your existing code in the newer managed code environment that .

NET provides. But it is difficult or impossible to throw out all existing legacy code and start over when a new technology arrives. Instead, you need to find a way to move forward with new .NET development while reusing existing pieces of tested, working code. You need a way to interoperate with the existing code until you have a chance to finally rewrite all of it in .NET.

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Essential ASP.NET with Examples in Visual Basic .NET

2009-07-25T18:14:00.004+06:00

Essential ASP.NET with Examples in Visual Basic .NET" is the Visual Basic programmer's definitive reference for ASP.NET through version 1.1. It provides experienced programmers with the information needed to fully understand the technology, and is a clear guide to using ASP.NET to build robust and well-architected Web applications.
This book begins with a discussion of the rationale behind the design of ASP.NET and an introduction to how it builds on top of the .NET framework. Subsequent chapters explore the host of new features in ASP.NET, including the server-side compilation model, code-behind classes, server-side controls, form validation, the data binding model, and custom control development. Throughout the book, working examples illustrate best practices for building Web-based applications in VB.NET.

Among the topics explored in depth are: ASP.NET architectureWeb formsConfigurationHTTP pipelineDiagnostics and error handlingValidationData bindingCustom controlsCachingState managementSecurity
Essential ASP.NET with Examples in Visual Basic .NET provides readers with the know-how needed to build more powerful, better architected Web applications with ASP.NET. 0201760398B12042002With coverage not found in other titles and endorsed by the architects of ASP.NET, this book is essential for any serious ASP.NET developer

File size: 3.45 MB

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Essential ASP.NET With Examples in C# (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

2009-07-25T18:10:00.003+06:00

The Microsoft .NET Framework is exactly what its name implies: A general system onto which a lot of application-specific technologies are stuck. Essential ASP.NET With Examples in C# assumes you know something about the .NET way of doing things, and want to know more about how you can use its ASP.NET facet to implement robust and stylish Web applications. Fritz Onion, in a manner typical of this series, introduces key ASP.NET concepts logically, and with lots of code listings that make it clear how the concepts should be translated into reality.
The truth be told, Onion excels at combining conceptual information with practical examples. This is unusual among writers of technical books, who tend to be good at (at best) one or the other. Typically, the author approaches a capability of ASP.NET--validation of submitted form data, say--by presenting a quick summary of the problem and then attacking it (or components of it) with code. The code segments (which tend not to be too long, and so relatively easy to trace and comprehend) are then dissected, and special attention called to details of particular interest to the local problem. It's a great way to learn if you already have a grasp of the basics, as you can either go hands-on with your own system or absorb the author's wisdom through the book alone. --David Wall

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Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide

2009-07-24T18:05:00.001+06:00

Agile and iterative methods have emerged as the most popular approaches to software development, and with good reason. Research (examined and cited in detail within this book) shows that iterative methods reduce the risk of failure, compared to traditional models of development. This book is an efficient introduction for both managers and practitioners that need a distilled and carefully organized learning aid for the hands-on practices from planning to requirements to testing and the values that define these methods. The author also provides evidence of the value of switching to agile and iterative methods. By studying this book, the reader will learn to apply the key ideas in agile and iterative development, the details and comparison of four influential iterative methods (Scrum, Extreme Programming, Evo, and the Unified Process), answers to frequently asked questions, and important related management skills. The book's goal is quality information that can be quickly understood and applied.

File size: 2.42 MB
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Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days, Second Edition

2009-07-23T18:00:00.002+06:00

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days, Second Edition offers an approachalbe guide to the latest in Microsoft .NET technologies. The author’s example-packed and accessible presentation style helped make the previous edition a success. The book walks the reader through the .NET Framework and teaches techniques needed to program Web applications efficiently. For experienced user of the previous version of ASP, this title will serve as an invaluable “upgrade” tool. After covering Web Forms and Server Controls, the author explores at database access with ADO.NET and XML. An application will be built throughout the book to illustrate techniques learned each day. XML Web Services are covered in detail due to their tight integration with ASP.NET applications. Overall this title will make ASP.NET accessible for just about anyone, with or without exposure to the older ASP standard.

File size: 8.64 MB

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Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques

2009-07-22T17:54:00.000+06:00

The landscape of doing SharePoint development has changed considerably in the last year, with the release of SharePoint Server 2007 and its related technologies. You need a contemporary reference to stay on top of the latest ways to combine .NET development techniques with your SharePoint development techniques, and SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques is your guide.
What makes this book unique are the topics that have never before been discussed in a SharePoint 2007 context. Learn how to incorporate the latest trends, capabilities, and enhancements in your daily SharePoint development activities.
What you’ll learn
Using Windows Workflow Foundation to create workflows in SharePoint Designer
Integrating business messaging with BizTalk Server 2006 into your SharePoint sites
Developing list item relationships via a feature
Creating and sharing database data by combining SharePoint with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Constructing queries using SQL full-text extensions
Who is this book for?
This book is targeted to SharePoint developers who want to learn about combining new .NET technologies with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers

2009-07-21T17:36:00.006+06:00

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform. Essential SharePoint 2007 demonstrates how your business can use SharePoint to control documents, structure workflow, and share information over the Web using standard tools business users already know -- Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.Written in a conversational tone by internationally recognized SharePoint consultant and trainer Jeff Webb, this book helps SharePoint administrators, site owners, and power users quickly gain the skills necessary to perform a wide variety of tasks for intranet and extranet web sites, and explains what's new in SharePoint 2007 for experienced SharePoint 2003 administrators. Essential SharePoint 2007 teaches you how to:
Use SharePoint 2007 with Outlook, Word and Excel, and as a document management tool, replacing, for example, shared network drives with libraries
Build and customize sites, lists, libraries and web parts for intranets and extranets
Use SharePoint 2007 for team communication through blogs, wikis, surveys, and RSS and email alerts
Build a SharePoint workflow application
Create and program web parts in order to deliver custom services and data to a site
Deploy and administer SharePoint 2007 Each chapter ends with a summary of best practices advocated by the author, and the first few chapters of the book are ideal as training materials for end users. Later chapters give developers and administrators tools not only to keep company sites running smoothly, but also to customize and extend them. The book also contains several appendices with a glossary of terms and hard-to-find information.Essential SharePoint 2007 is a one-stop task-oriented guide for learning what's necessary to make this tool a vital part of team productivity.

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ASP.NET AJAX Programmer's Reference: with ASP.NET 2.0 or ASP.NET 3.5 Dr. Shahram Khosravi

2009-07-15T02:05:00.000+06:00

Ajax is one of the hottest changes in Web development methods in years; Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX (formerly known as "Atlas") provides Ajax add-ins for ASP.NET developers, and this comprehensive Wrox reference offers coverage of all the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX pieces

Readers will find the hands-on, code-based technical discussions they need on ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX client-side Framework, writing OO-style JavaScript code, using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX client-side controls, ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX XML, and advanced ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX topics including how ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX uses the ASP.NET 2.0 server control architecture

ASP.NET developers will learn to add Ajax techniques into the ASP.NET applications by prebuilding some of the underlying components and using a standardized tool-set

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McGraw Hill Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 The Complete Reference

2009-07-14T01:59:00.002+06:00

The definitive guide to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
"This well-planned and well-written book offers a comprehensive reference for IT professionals, application developers and business analysts working with SharePoint applications." --James A. Robertson, MCSD.NET, Senior Software Engineer, Applied Information Sciences

Deploy and manage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the enterprise with help from this one-stop resource. Through detailed instructions, screenshots, and code samples, this comprehensive guide shows you, step-by-step, how to use SharePoint Server and make the most of all its powerful tools and utilities.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: The Complete Reference explains how to develop a customized installation plan, configure the server for optimal performance, and administer users, documents, and content. You'll get full details on designing feature-rich portals and collaboration sites, creating user-friendly forms and workflows, using modular Web Parts, and incorporating business data.

Install and configure SharePoint Server for the entire enterprise
Manage the server from the Central Administration site
Design SharePoint Server portals, websites, lists, and document libraries
Work with SharePoint Web Parts or build your own
Ensure cross-site consistency using site columns and content types
Create site definitions and templates using SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
Build custom workflows using SharePoint Designer
Extend SharePoint Server using the Object Model and Event Receivers
Import and map enterprise information using the Business Data Catalog
Use the advanced services of Office Search and Excel Web Services

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Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 6th Edition

2009-07-14T01:33:00.006+06:00

This title is the complete programming reference for intermediate and expert developers who want to create .NET applications with Visual C++ and the .NET Framework. Focusing on core programming techniques, instructions, and solutions, this book is designed to help developers who are already familiar with Visual C++ discover what's new in Visual C++.NET and learn how to use the language and their programming skills with the Windows operating system to produce a new generation of killer .NET applications. An enhanced eBook in Microsoft Help 2 format, extensive real-world programming examples, and reusable code on a companion CD-ROM all give readers the complete answers they need to solve specific .NET coding problems faster.faster. 14.25 MB. Download

Premier Press 3D Game Programming All In One

2009-07-14T00:03:00.000+06:00

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