Silverlight 4: Problem - Design - Solution

Silverlight 4: Problem - Design - Solution By Nick Lecrenski Publisher: Wrox 2010 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0470534044 | PDF | 16 MB A hands-on guide to Microsoft’s latest rich application development technology: Silverlight 4Silverlight 4 is the newest version of the rich Internet application toolkit that provides support for .NET capabilities over the Internet. With this latest release of Silverlight, Microsoft has revolutionized the way that Web applications can be created. This book uses the popular Problem – Design – Solution strategy to demonstrate how to harness the power and abilities of Silverlight 4 to add value to the overall user experience of a Web site. Using a Web site created by the author as a reference point, you’ll go through the steps of creating a live, fully functional application for the Web using Silverlight 4 and the Silverlight Control Toolkit. Along the way, the book addresses important design considerations, such as the use of Web Services and the SQL Server database. * Uses the popular Problem – Design – Solution format show you how to harness the power of the latest version of Silverlight, Microsoft’s rich Internet application toolkit * Puts the author’s own Web site to task as you learn to create rich user interfaces that integrate video, HTML, and social networking components * Explains system linking and data flow, end user interface, system architecture based on Silverlight 4 and .NET 4, and more * Includes coverage on integrating social networking and Facebook With this book, you’ll quickly get started using the new features of Silverlight 4 to enhance the user experience of a Web site. From the Back Cover Create a fully functional application using Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 boasts long-awaited features that conquer writing a Rich Internet Application. Using new line-of-business features in this book, you create a web application that’s more responsive than a traditional ASP.NET web site. Leveraging new features and the improved Silverlight Toolkit, in each chapter you’ll work through the problem statement, design analysis, and solution implementation. Silverlight 4: Problem–Design–Solution: * Explains how to determine functional requirements for your site * Details the latest features, such as charting, enhanced data entry controls, navigation framework, and element to element binding * Covers the new Silverlight Toolkit featuring themes, charting, and layout management * Uses the new .NET RIA Services for your middle tier and data access layers * Utilizes existing Silverlight ASP.NET membership, authentication, and profile services * Illustrates adding social networking to the application using a Silverlight based MySpace application * Addresses generating revenue with Pay-Per-Click advertisements from Google AdSense and recurring monthly subscriptions using the PayPal® developer API * Shows how to leverage the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to incorporate HTML content into a Silverlight application * Includes step-by-step deployment instructions to host the site with a real shared hosted provider, Discount ASP.NET Wrox Problem – Design – Solution references give you solid, workable solutions to real-world development problems. Each chapter is devoted to a different scenario, analyzing every problem, examining relevant design issues, and implementing the ideal solution.

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 By Mark Collins Publisher: Apress 2010 | 500 Pages | ISBN: 1430224851 | PDF | 4 MB Windows Workflow Foundation is a ground-breaking addition to the core of the .NET Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented. As business problems become more complex, the need for a workflow-based solution has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow. Beginning WF demonstrates, in an eminently readable and accessible style, how Microsoft's Workflow Foundation (WF) technology can be used in a wide variety of applications. Loaded with lots of simple yet demonstrative sample projects Very hands-on with practical "how-to" information Indexed by feature so specific questions are easily answered What you'll learn Beginning WF will take you step by step through many of the useful applications of workflow technology. Along the way, you will: Create designer-based and code-based workflows Communicate between applications using workflow activities Implement SQL persistence with custom participants Create workflow extensions and custom activities Build applications that support long-running workflows Host workflows in WCF services Who is this book for? This book is perfectly suited to anyone using or considering Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation. It describes what WF can do for you and how to quickly learn the basic concepts needed to be proficient. If you're actively implementing a workflow project, this book has lots of sample projects that demonstrate the most useful design patterns. About the Author Mark Collins has developed software for over 25 years, mostly using the Microsoft stack. He has served many roles including development manager, architect, team lead, database administrator, and project manager. He has extensive experience in retail (point-of-sale and inventory) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Mark currently serves as a senior software engineer for a nonprofit organization, providing a custom CRM, mail processing, and fulfillment system.

Testing ASP.NET Web Applications

Jeff McWherter, Ben Hall, "Testing ASP.NET Web Applications" Wrox | 2009 | ISBN: 0470496649 | 432 pages | PDF | 10,8 MB A unique resource that combines all aspects of Web testing and makes it completely specific to ASP.NET As Microsoft's key Web technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites and Web applications, ASP.NET is incredibly popular. This is the first book to combine several testing topics and make them specific to ASP.NET. The author duo of Microsoft MVPs covers both the test-driven development approach and the specifics of automated user interface testing; performance, load, and stress testing; accessibility testing; and security testing. This definitive guide walks you through the many testing pitfalls you might experience when developing ASP.NET applications. The authors explain the fundamental concepts of testing and demystify all the correct actions you need to consider and the tools that are available so that you may successfully text your application. Author duo of Microsoft MVPs offer a unique resource: a combination of several testing topics and making them specific to ASP.NET, Microsoft's key Web technology for creating dynamic, data-driven Web sites and applications Guides you through the many testing pitfalls you may experience when developing ASP.NET applications Reviews the fundamental concepts of testing and walks you through the various tools and techniques available and for successfully testing an application Discusses several different types of testing: acceptance, stress, accessibility, and security Examines various testing tools, such as nUnit, VS test suite, WCAT, Selenium, Fiddler, Firebug, and more This one-of-a-kind resource will help you become proficient in successfull application testing.

Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice

Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice: A Practical Guide for architecture, design, and implementation Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann | ISBN: 0123704529 | edition 2007 | PDF | 545 pages | 10,6 mb This is not only a great introduction to JDM, but also a great introduction for a practitioner to data mining in general. This is a must have" for anyone developing large scale data mining applications in Java... It pleases me that the Java Community Process(sm)(JCPsm) Program could host the development of the Data Mining standard, JSR 73, whose evolution and usability are presented so compellingly in Java Data Mining: Standard, Strategy and Practice. The authors have taken a unique approach to describing a broad range of aspects from strategies to problem solving with data mining technology in a variety of industries. The book is a must-read for those who want to introduce themselves to Java data mining (JDM) and fully realize the strategic importance of this technology in an ever competitive environment.

Learning iPhone Programming: From Xcode to App Store

Learning iPhone Programming: From Xcode to App Store By Alasdair Allan Publisher: O'Reilly Media 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0596806434 | PDF | 5 MB Get the hands-on experience you need to program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll build several sample applications by learning how to use Xcode tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks. Before you know it, you'll not only have the skills to develop your own apps, you'll know how to sail through the process of submitting apps to the iTunes App Store. Whether you're a developer new to Mac programming or an experienced Mac developer ready to tackle the iPhone and iPod Touch, Learning iPhone Programming will give you a head start on building market-ready iPhone apps. Start using Xcode right away, and learn how to work with Interface Builder Take advantage of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture with Objective-C Build a data-entry interface, and learn how to parse and store the data you receive Solve typical problems while building a variety of challenging sample apps Understand the demands and details of App Store and ad hoc distribution Use iPhone's accelerometer, proximity sensor, GPS, digital compass, and camera Integrate your app with iPhone's preference pane, media playback, and more About the Author Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. On the side, Alasdair runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software and building open hardware, and is currently developing a series of iPhone applications to monitor and manage cloud based services and distributed sensor networks.

Windows Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition

See how the core components of the Windows operating system work behind the scenes—guided by a team of internationally renowned internals experts. Fully updated for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, this classic guide delivers key architectural insights on system design, debugging, performance, and support—along with hands-on experiments to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand. Delve inside Windows architecture and internals: •Understand how the core system and management mechanisms work—from the object manager to services to the registry •Explore internal system data structures using tools like the kernel debugger •Grasp the scheduler's priority and CPU placement algorithms •Go inside the Windows security model to see how it authorizes access to data •Understand how Windows manages physical and virtual memory •Tour the Windows networking stack from top to bottom—including APIs, protocol drivers, and network adapter drivers •Troubleshoot file-system access problems and system boot problems •Learn how to analyze crashes

Accelerated C# 2010

Publisher: Apress | ISBN: 1430225378 | Jan 2010 | PDF | 450pages | 5.2Mb C# 2010 offers powerful new features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of C#—for both experienced C# programmers moving to C# 2010 and programmers moving to C# from another object-oriented language. Many books introduce C#, but very few also explain how to use it optimally with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). This book teaches both core C# language concepts and how to wisely employ C# idioms and object-oriented design patterns to exploit the power of C# and the CLR. This book is both a rapid tutorial and a permanent reference. You’ll quickly master C# syntax while learning how the CLR simplifies many programming tasks. You’ll also learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient, reusable, and robust. Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code C# when this book will show you how to do things the right way from the start? * Comprehensively and concisely explains both C# 2008 and C# 2010 features * Focuses on the language itself and on how to use C# 2010 proficiently for all .NET application development. * Concentrates on how C# features work and how to best use them for robust, high-performance code What you’ll learn * How C# works with and exploits the CLR * How to use arrays, collections, and iterators * How to handle events with delegates and anonymous functions * How to design and use generic types and methods * How to thread efficiently and robustly * How C# anonymous types, lamba expressions, and extension methods work and how to use them Who is this book for? If you’re an experienced C# programmer, you need to understand how C# has changed with C# 2010. If you’re an experienced object-oriented programmer moving to C#, you want to ramp up quickly in the language while learning the latest features and techniques. In either case, this book is for you. The first three chapters succinctly present C# fundamentals, for those new to or reviewing C#. The rest of the book covers all the major C# features, in great detail, explaining how they work and how best to use them. Whatever your background or need, you’ll treasure this book for as long as you code in C# 2010.

Windows System Programming, 4th Edition

Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition, now contains extensive new coverage of 64-bit programming, parallelism, multicore systems, and many other crucial topics. Johnson Hart’s robust code examples have been updated and streamlined throughout. They have been debugged and tested in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, on single and multiprocessor systems, and under Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, and Windows XP. To clarify program operation, sample programs are now illustrated with dozens of screenshots. Hart systematically covers Windows externals at the API level, presenting practical coverage of all the services Windows programmers need, and emphasizing how Windows functions actually behave and interact in real-world applications. Hart begins with features used in single-process applications and gradually progresses to more sophisticated functions and multithreaded environments. Topics covered include file systems, memory management, exceptions, processes, threads, synchronization, interprocess communication, Windows services, and security. New coverage in this edition includes * Leveraging parallelism and maximizing performance in multicore systems * Promoting source code portability and application interoperability across Windows, Linux, and UNIX * Using 64-bit address spaces and ensuring 64-bit/32-bit portability * Improving performance and scalability using threads, thread pools, and completion ports * Techniques to improve program reliability and performance in all systems * Windows performance-enhancing API features available starting with Windows Vista, such as slim reader/writer locks and condition variables

Beginning Visual Basic 2010

Title: Beginning Visual Basic 2010 Publisher: Wrox | ISBN: 0470502223 | Mar 2010 | PDF | 720 pages | 9Mb A focused, step-by-step approach to Visual Basic for new programmers What better way to get started with Visual Basic than with this essential Wrox beginner’s guide? Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 not only shows you how to write Windows applications, Web applications with ASP.NET, and Windows mobile and embedded CE apps with Visual Basic 2010, but you’ll also get a thorough grounding in the basic nuts-and-bolts of writing good code. You’ll be exposed to the very latest VB tools and techniques with coverage of both the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 releases. Plus, the book walks you step-by-step through tasks, as you gradually master this exciting new release of Microsoft’s popular and important programming language. * Microsoft’s Visual Basic is a frequent first language for new programmers; this clear, focused book walks you through the basics and gets you quickly productive in Visual Basic * Features in-depth coverage of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 releases, so you’ll be learning the very latest VB tools and techniques * Discusses flow control, data structure, Windows applications, dialog boxes, menus, error handing and debugging, and objects and object oriented techniques * Covers class libraries, Windows Forms, graphics programming, accessing databases, Web programming with ASP.NET and Visual Basic, data access, SQL Server, ADO.NET, and XML

CLR via C# 3rd Edition

Product Description Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework 4.0. Written by a highly regarded programming expert and consultant to the Microsoft(R) .NET team, this guide is ideal for developers building any kind of application-including Microsoft(R) ASP.NET, Windows(R) Forms, Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R), Web services, and console applications. You’ll get hands-on instruction and extensive C# code samples to help you tackle the tough topics and develop high-performance applications. It is October 2009 as I write this text, making it 10 years now that I’ve worked with the .NET Framework and C#. Over the 10 years, I have built all kinds of applications and, as a consultant to Microsoft, have contributed quite a bit to the .NET Framework itself. As a partner in my own company, Wintellect (http://Wintellect.com), I have worked with numerous customers to help them design software, debug software, performance-tune software, and solve issues they have with the .NET Framework. All these experiences have really helped me learn the spots that people have trouble with when trying to be productive with the .NET Framework. I have tried to sprinkle knowledge from these experiences through all the topics presented in this book.