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  • Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .

    Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .

    by Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams

    “ Framework Design Guidelines is one of those rare books that can be read at different reading levels and can be useful to different kinds of developers. Regardless of whether you want to design an effective object model, improve your understanding of the .NET Framework, borrow from the experience of software gurus, stay clear of the most common programming mistakes, or just get an idea of the huge effort that led to the .NET initiative, this book is a must-read.

  • Essential LINQ (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

    Essential LINQ (Microsoft .NET Development Series)

    by Charlie Calvert, Dinesh Kulkarni

    “Charlie and Dinesh bring important skills to this project that enable them to show how LINQ works and the practical ways you can use it in your daily development process.” From the Foreword by Anders Hejlsberg LINQ is one of Microsoft’s most exciting, powerful new development technologies. Essential LINQ is the first LINQ book written by leading members of Microsoft’s LINQ and C# teams.

  • Expert C# 2008 Business Objects

    Expert C# 2008 Business Objects

    by Rockford Lhotka

    Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object–oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is for you. In Rockford Lhotka’s Expert C# 2008 Business Objects, you’ll learn how to use advanced .

  • WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in .Net)

    WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in .Net)

    by Allen Jones, Sam Bourton, Sam Noble

    WPF offers amazing new opportunities to .NET programmers in terms of the user interfaces they can deliver to their customers. But this significant technological advance comes with a steep learning curve, requiring the programmer to learn new classes, new syntax, and an entirely new approach to UI development.

  • Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional

    Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional

    by Cristian Darie, Karli Watson

    With the latest incarnations of ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008, programming dynamic data–driven web sites with Microsoft technologies has become easier and much more efficient than ever before. Fewer mouse clicks and fewer lines of code can now enable more powerful features and the tools you need—Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition—are free. In Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional, you'll learn how to best use the free deve

  • XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in XNA)

    XNA 3.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in XNA)

    by Riemer Grootjans

    Join the game development revolution today! XNA 3.0 greatly simplifies the development of your own games, lowering the barrier for programmers to get into game development. In XNA, you can start coding your games from the very start, a true revelation compared to other game programming environments. XNA doesn’t sacrifice power for this ease of use—it is built entirely on DirectX technology. Completely updated for XNA 3.

  • Distributed .NET Programming in C#

    Distributed .NET Programming in C#

    by Tom Barnaby

    With the release of .NET, Microsoft has once again altered the distributed programming landscape. Almost everything has changed, from data access, to remote object calls, to the deployment of software components. And of course, .NET introduces a new technology in XML Web services that may revolutionize Web development. Distributed .NET Programming in C# describes how to use these new .NET technologies to build fast, scalable, and robust distributed applications.

  • Database Programming with C#

    Database Programming with C#

    by Carsten Thomsen

    Need to master database programming in C#? Then Database Programming with C# is your ultimate resource! You will learn to create database details like tables, constraints, projects, stored procedures, views, triggers, and more. You will build on example code from the book's beginning, wrapping up in the final chapter. (The example application is a complete user management system that includes SQL Server, Active Directory, and Message Queuing.

  • A Programmer's Introduction to C# (Second Edition)

    A Programmer's Introduction to C# (Second Edition)

    by Eric Gunnerson

    This comprehensive reference to the C# language is designed to help you get up to speed on C#. Author Eric Gunnerson, a developer on Microsoft's C# design team, has logged many hours writing and testing C# code. Thus, he is uniquely poised to effectively coach you on using the language. And you will come to understand how C# fits into Microsoft's .NET Framework. Gunnerson provides the ideal foundation for you to springboard into a C# knowledge base.

  • The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide

    The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide

    by Brian Bischof

    For Visual Basic and C# programmers facing Microsoft's new platform, The .NET Languages: A Quick Translation Guide offers an extremely useful comparison of three languages: Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, and C#. With nearly indispensable code snippets that show central language features at work, this book offers an excellent resource for getting up to speed with .NET in record time.The just-the-facts approach in this text is its best feature.

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  • Jul 22

    The Austin C/C++ July Meetup

    Austin, United States

    All welcome to show up and chat about C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java, Python, or software engineering in general. We'll have a sign saying "C/C++" on our table, so look for it! We're moving to Tuesdays nights so that we can get the back room at Rover's, which will reduce the noise and increase the available space.

  • Aug 28

    St. Louis Day of .NET

    St. Charles, United States

    Technical conference with be 2 full days of content with over 40 sessions from local and national speakers, with topics such as:•.NET languages: C#, VB.NET•Technologies: WPF, Silverlight, WCF•Development tools: Visual Studio, TFS, Expression Blend

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