.NET Books
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Pro Silverlight 2 in VB 2008
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Matthew MacDonald, Apress
Silverlight is a lightweight browser plug–in that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It’s a rules–changing, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it’s able to host true .NET applications in non–Microsoft browsers (like Firefox) and on non–Microsoft platforms (like Mac OS X
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Pro Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 3.5 Platform
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Stephen R. G. Fraser, Apress
Pro Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 3.5 Platform is about writing .NET applications using C++/CLI. While readers are learning the ins and outs of .NET application development, they will also be learning the syntax of C++, both old and new to .NET. Readers will also gain a good understanding of the .NET architecture. This is truly a .NET book applying C++ as its development language—not another C++ syntax book that happens to cover .NET.
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Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by John Shaw, Simon Evans, Apress
Pro ADO.NET Data Services: Working with RESTful Data is aimed at developers interested in taking advantage of the new REST–style data services that ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code–named Astoria) provides. The book shows how to incorporate ADO.NET Data Services into a wide range of common environments including BizTalk, AJAX and Silverlight client applications. The material is intended for professional developers who are comfortable with the .NET 3.
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Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Matthew MacDonald, Apress
Pro Silverlight 2 in C# 2008 is the perfect reference: you’ll learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D drawing, animations, and media playback, and best of all, you’ll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next–generation Windows applications.
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Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jit Ghosh, Rob Cameron, Apress
Microsoft .NET Architect Evangelist, Jit Ghosh, presents a practical companion guide to developing rich, interactive web applications with Silverlight 2. Common problems, issues, and every–day scenarios are tackled with a detailed discussion of the solution and ready–made code recipes that will save you hours of coding time. The recipes included in Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach have been carefully selected and tested with the professional developer in mind.
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Accelerated Silverlight 2
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jeff Scanlon, Apress
Accelerated Silverlight 2 will get you up to speed with the latest version of Silverlight quickly and efficiently. Author Jeff Scanlon assumes you’re already comfortable with the basics of .NET coding and with WPF, and they help you build on your existing knowledge to make your journey to Silverlight 2 proficiency as quick and painless as possible.
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Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Grant Palmer, Jacquie Barker, Apress
Updated with the latest changes to C#, Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concepts to Code introduces complete beginners to C# coding practice with a solid methodological foundation written by two critically–acclaimed experts in the field, already authors of the best–selling Beginning C# Objects.
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Pro Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Joachim Rossberg, Apress
You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn’t up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small, throughout your project’s life cycle that will lead to better–quality finished products that are consistently delivered on time and within budget.
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WPF Recipes in C# 2008: A Problem-Solution Approach
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Sam Bourton, Allen Jones, Sam Noble, Apress
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.
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Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Christian Gross, Apress
This book is for anyone who wants to write good C# code—even if you have never programmed before. Writing good code can be a challenge—there are so many options, especially in a .NET language like C#. If you want to really get the best from a programming language, you need to know which features work best in which situations and understand their strengths and weaknesses. It is this understanding that makes the difference between coding and coding well.