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• WPF(WindowsPresentationFoundation)GUI,graphicsand multimedia. We ex-
tend thecore book’s GUIcoverageinChapters 24–25 with an introduction to
WindowsPresentation Foundation (WPF)—Microsoft’snew framework that in-
tegratesGUI,graphicsand multimedia capabilities. We implementapainting ap-
plication,atexteditor, acolor chooser,abook-cover viewer,atelevision video
player, various animations, andspeechsynthesis andrecognitionapplications.
• ASP.NET 4and ASP.NET AJAX. Chapter27extends Chapter19’sASP.NET
discussion with acasestudy on building apassword-protected, web-basedbook-
store application.Wealsointroduce ASP.NET AJAX controls anduse them to
addAJAXfunctionality to webapplicationstoimprovetheir responsiveness.
• WCF(WindowsCommunication Foundation) WebServices. Webservicesen-
able youtopackage application functionality in amannerthatturns the webinto
alib rary of reusableservices. In Chapter28, we includecasestudiesonbuilding
an airlinereservation webservice,ablackjackweb service andamath question
generatorweb service that’s called by amathtutor application.
• Silverlight. Chapter29introducesSilverlight, which enablesyou to create visu-
ally stunning,multimedia-intensive user interfaces forweb applications. The
chapter presents powerful multimedia applications, including aweather viewer,
Flickrphotovie wer, deep zoom book-cover collage andvideoviewer.
• Visual C# XMLcapabilities. Use of theExtensible MarkupLanguage(XML)isex-
ploding in thesoftware-development industry andine-business,and is pervasive
throughout the.NETplatform.InChapter 26,weuse show howtoprogrammat-
icallymanipulatethe elements of an XML documentusing LINQ to XML.
• Optional Case Study: Usingthe UML to DevelopanObject-Oriented Design and
C# ImplementationofanATM. TheUML™(UnifiedModeling Language™)is
thepreferred graphicalmodeling languagefor designing object-oriented systems.
This edition includes an optional online case studyonobject-oriented design using
theUML (Chapters 30–31).Wedesign andimplementthe software forasimple
automatedtellermachine (ATM). We analyzeatypicalrequirements document
that specifiesthe system to be built. We determinethe classesneededtoimplement
that system,the attributesthe classesneedtohave,the behaviorsthe classesneedto
exhibitand specifyhow theclassesmustinteractwithone anothertomeetthe sys-
temrequirements.Fromthe design we produceaworkingVisualC#implementa-
tion.We’ve presentedthiscasestudy to professional audiences in C#,Java,Visual
Basicand C++. Afterseeing thecase-studypresentation, students report having a
“light-bulbmoment”—thecasestudy“tiesitall together”for them andhelps them
understand howobjects in alargersystemcommunicate with oneanother.
• Index. Theonline index includes thecontentfrom theprintedbook and theon-
line content.The printed book indexcoversonlythe printedmaterial.
Dependency Charts
ThechartsinFigs.1–2 show thedependenciesamong the chapters to help instructors plan
theirsyllabi.The printed book focusesonintroductory coursesequences(Fig. 1).The online
chapters includeintermediate andadvanced content formore advanced courses(Fig. 2).
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