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Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to building connected, service-oriented applications.Teach yourself the essentials of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4 -- one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the clear guidance and hands-on examples you need to begin creating Web services for robust Windows-based business applications.Discover how to: *Build and host SOAP and REST services *Maintain service contracts and data contracts

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/94251/silverlight-4-unleashed/ 2011-02-01T14:13:00.00Z

Printed entirely in color, with helpful figures and syntax coloring to make code samples appear as they do in Visual Studio and Expression Blend!Using Silverlight 4, you can build richer and more powerful applications than ever before, and deploy them seamlessly in browsers, on desktop computers, and even on Windows Phone 7. In Silverlight 4 Unleashed, Microsoft Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion covers everything you need to do all this, and much more.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43780/silverlight-3-in-action/ 2009-06-04T00:00:00.00Z

Silverlight 3 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer who already knows how to code in C#, this fluff-free book covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML (a language for creating user interface elements), Visual Studio 2008/2010, and the Expression design su

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/85411/professional-silverlight-4-wrox-programmer-to-programmer/ 2010-08-09T00:00:00.00Z

Everything .NET developers need to take advantage of Silverlight 4Silverlight 4 is a major new release of Microsoft's flagship product for building rich, interactive applications that combine animation, graphics, audio, and video. This book, by seasoned Wrox authors and Silverlight experts, gives professional Web developers all the tools necessary to build RIAs using the new Silverlight capabilities.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/81691/pro-vb-2010-and-the-net-40-platform/ 2010-07-17T00:00:00.00Z

Be the first to understand .NET 4.0 and Visual Basic 2010. Pro VB 2010 and the .NET 4.0 Platform provides developers with a complete guide to the new technology, explaining the importance of all the key C# 2010 language features. This new edition has been comprehensively revised and rewritten to make it accurately reflect the VB 10 language specification for the .NET 4.0 platform.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/80025/professional-visual-basic-2010-and-net-4/ 2010-05-10T00:00:00.00Z

Intermediate and advanced coverage of Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 for professional developersIf you've already covered the basics and want to dive deep into VB and .NET topics that professional programmers use most, this is your book. You'll find a quick review of introductory topics-always helpful-before the author team of experts moves you quickly into such topics as data access with ADO.NET, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), security, ASP.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/65091/introducing-net-40-with-visual-studio-2010/ 2010-02-01T00:00:00.00Z

Microsoft is introducing a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Many familiar technologies are being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. You may know what's happening in C#, but what about the Azure cloud? How is that going to affect your work? What are the limitations of the new pLINQ syntax?

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43759/programming-entity-framework/ 2009-02-12T00:00:00.00Z

Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's new core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework and explains its use in a variety of applications, it also provides a deep understanding of its architecture and APIs. From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, Programming Entity Framework covers it all.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/43750/datadriven-services-with-silverlight-2/ 2009-01-02T00:00:00.00Z

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft's new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/17078/programming-wcf-services/ 2008-11-10T00:00:00.00Z

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Hailed as the most definitive treatment of WCF available, this relentlessly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.

James Crowley