Book Description

ASP.NET 4 is the latest version of Microsoft’s revolutionary web technology. It is the principal technology for creating dynamic web pages on the Windows platform.

Applied ASP.NET 4 In Context sets the standard for clear, simple, hands-on advice for learning and deploying Microsoft’s dynamic web solutions. Seasoned .NET author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from ASP.NET by focusing on the features you need for your project. He starts with the nuts and bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need to use ASP.NET in a real-world context.

Effective and powerful ASP.NET programming is easier than ever before with this informed and practical guide.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the capabilities of ASP.NET 4 and why it is special
• Learn how to build client applications using MVC, Web Forms and Silverlight
• Build data-driven web applications using ADO.NET and LINQ
• Rapidly prototype data applications using dynamic data
• Enhance user interactions with JavaScript and jQuery
• Create and consume web services using WCF
• Customize web applications with advanced ASP.NET features
• Deploy and secure your web applications on IIS 7 Download Now »

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Build Your Own ASP.NET 4 Web Site Using C# & VB is aimed at beginner ASP.NET developers wanting to develop their skills, web designers wanting to move into server-side programming, and experienced developers making the leap from ASP to .NET.

Readers will learn:

• language and programming basics
• how to construct ASP.Net Web Pages
• how to build web applications
• to use validation controls
• database design and development
• how to use ADO.NET
• how to manage data and content
• how to integrate Ajax and jQuery
• the role of MVC

… all in the process of successfully developing and deploying a working intranet site for a fictional company.

About the Author
Tim Posey is a long-time developer and a passionate educator. Armed with a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.B.A. in Finance, he has traversed many industries, consulting for multiple corporations in banking, insurance, energy, and various e-commerce industries. As a serial entrepreneur, Tim’s latest project is mentoring the startup of the LegacyGeeks.com community. Download Now »

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Build the skills to apply Microsoft® .NET collections effectively

Put .NET collections to work—and manage issues with GUI data binding, threading, data querying, and storage. Led by a data collection expert, you’ll gain task-oriented guidance, exercises, and extensive code samples to tackle common problems and improve application performance. This one-stop reference is designed for experienced Microsoft Visual Basic® and C# developers—whether you’re already using collections or just starting out.

Discover how to:

• Implement arrays, associative arrays, stacks, linked lists, and other collection types
• Apply built in .NET collection classes by learning their methods and properties
• Add enumerator, dictionary, and other .NET collection interfaces to your classes
• Query collections by writing simple to complex Microsoft LINQ statements
• Synchronize data across threads using built in .NET synchronization classes
• Enhance your custom collection classes with serialization support
• Use simple data binding to display collections in Windows® Forms, Microsoft Silverlight®, and Windows Presentation Foundation

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Understanding Collections: Arrays and Linked Lists
Chapter 2 Understanding Collections: Associative Arrays
Chapter 3 Understanding Collections: Queues, Stacks, and Circular Buffers Download Now »

Book Description

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel every time you run into a problem with ASP.NET’s Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. This concise cookbook provides recipes to help you solve tasks many web developers encounter every day. Each recipe includes the C# code you need, along with a complete working example of how to implement the solution. Learn practical techniques for applying user authentication, providing faster page reloads, validating user data, filtering search results, and many other issues related to MVC3 development.

These recipes help you:

• Restrict access to views with password protection
• Allow users to upload and save a file to your website
• Implement AJAX to allow users to see updated content quickly
• Validate form input to ensure the data you capture is what you expect
• Create thumbnails to preview images rather than view them full-size
• Give your web application the ability to change languages
• Use CAPTCHA to prevent automated programs from completing forms
• Make URLs more user- and search-engine-friendly with the MapRoute function

About the Author
Jamie has been developing websites personally and professionally for the past 15 years. During this time he’s helped engineer dozens of small and large projects using MVC .NET as the framework. Jamie is well versed in many web technologies as well as several software development languages. Download Now »

Book Description

Microsoft SharePoint 2010, is the best-in-class platform for content management and collaboration. With the combined capabilities of Sharepoint and Visual Studio, developers have an end-to-end business solutions development IDE. To leverage this powerful combination of tools it is necessary to understand the different building blocks. This book will provide necessary concepts and present ways to develop complex business solutions and take them further.

SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook With Visual Studio 2010 is an instructional guide for developing and debugging applications for SharePoint 2010 environment using Visual Studio 2010. The cookbook approach helps you to dip into any recipe that interests you, you can also read it from cover to cover if you want to get hands on with the complete application development cycle.

With this book you will learn to develop event handlers, workflows, content types, web parts, client object model applications, and web services for SharePoint 2010 in an instructional manner. You will discover the less known facts behind debugging feature receivers, deployment of web parts, utilizing free toolkits to enhance the development and debugging experience.

You will learn the newer development approach called Visual Web Parts, how to develop and deploy Silverlight applications that can be used with Silverlight web part. You will also explore SandBoxed deployment model and its usage. You will create your own web services for SharePoint and the Client Object Model introduced in SharePoint 2010. All in all, you will develop Sharepoint solutions in an instructional manner that eases the learning process. Download Now »

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Using engaging examples and a clear, straightforward approach, MICROSOFT VISUAL C# 2010: AN INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, FOURTH EDITION guides beginning programmers through developing programs in the C# language. The book provides readers with a strong background knowledge of structured programming, method calling, and parameter passing, all of which are important concepts easily transferable to other programming languages. The Fourth Edition has been written and tested using the latest version of C#, Visual C# 2010, and now offers supplementary video lessons, expanded coverage of methods, and the option to study GUI applications earlier in the text.

Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 A First Program Using C#
CHAPTER 2 Using Data
CHAPTER 3 Using GUI Objects and the Visual Studio IDE
CHAPTER 4 Making Decisions
CHAPTER 5 Looping
CHAPTER 6 Using Arrays
CHAPTER 7 Using Methods
CHAPTER 8 Advanced Method Concepts
CHAPTER 9 Using Classes and Objects Download Now »