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Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business.

Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.

This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to create custom user controls, reference resources, and edit basic control templates
• Build an end-to-end dashboard solution
• Learn how to use Microsoft Expression Blend to style a dashboard
• Explore the different types of dashboards, and learn how to choose the most appropriate dashboard type based on your project goals Download Now »

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Learn the secret to building solid and secure web services using Zend Framework with this book.

Inside the covers of this book you will find chapters on building web services using SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, and REST. Each of the protocols has a chapter dedicated to it. You will first understand the concepts and then be introduced to the practical application of the protocol.

Anyone who as done any programming will know that good web services start by choosing the right protocol but the work doesn’t end there. In this book you learn how to secure your web services, how to build ACLs to control access to them, as well as how to build unit tests to test them after each change. In short, this book gives you everything you need to take your existing Zend Framework knowledge and build high quality web services.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Zend Framework
Chapter 2. Our Data
Chapter 3. SOAP
Chapter 4. Customizing Our SOAP Service
Chapter 5. REST
Chapter 6. XML-RPC
Chapter 7. JSON-RPC
Chapter 8. Limiting Access using Zend_Acl Download Now »

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Ready to learn programming? Start Here!™

Learn the fundamentals of modern programming with Visual C# 2010—and begin building your first apps for the desktop and web. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Here’s where you start learning Visual C#

• Learn how an application performs tasks by tracing its code
• Query and manipulate application data with LINQ
• Access web services with REST and SOAP
• Build simple apps with Windows® Presentation Foundation
• Explore rich Internet apps with Microsoft Silverlight®
• Find and fix errors by debugging your applications
• Put it all together by creating your first programs

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Getting to Know C#
Chapter 2 Developing a Web Project
Chapter 3 Basic Data Manipulation Techniques
Chapter 4 Using Collections to Store Data
Chapter 5 Working with XML
Chapter 6 Accessing a Web Service Download Now »

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When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft’s ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook’s unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.

PHP Cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that you’ll face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, this guide contains practical examples — or “recipes” — for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Updated for PHP 5, this book provides solutions that explain how to use the new language features in detail, including the vastly improved object-oriented capabilities and the new PDO data access extension. New sections on classes and objects are included, along with new material on processing XML, building web services with PHP, and working with SOAP/REST architectures. With each recipe, the authors include a discussion that explains the logic and concepts underlying the solution.

About the Author
Adam Trachtenberg is a technical evangelist for eBay and is the author of two O’Reilly books, “Upgrading to PHP 5″ and “PHP Cookbook”. He is a frequent speaker at O’Reilly Open Source Conferences and LinuxWorld. Adam has an MBA from Columbia Business School. While there, he focused on general management and operations, with an emphasis on the field of technology. Adam also has a BA from Columbia University. As an undergraduate, he majored in mathematics, and his other studies included computer science and Chinese. Download Now »

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Web services are gaining popularity and have become one of the major techniques for application integration. Due to the flexibility and advantages of using web services, you want to enable Web service support to your applications. This book is your gateway to learning all you need to know about the Apache Axis2 web service framework and its hands on implementation.

Apache Axis2 Web Services, 2nd Edition is your comprehensive guide to implementing this incredibly powerful framework in practice. It gives you precisely what you need to know to develop a detailed practical understanding of this popular, modular and reliable web service framework.

This book starts with a short and relevant introduction about the Axis2 1.5 framework and then plunges you straight into its architectural model.

Learn to use and develop your own modules. Write a services.xml file so efficiently that you’ll be creating more complex applications (rather than just POJOs) in no time.

Learn how straightforward it really is to turn a Java class into a web service in Axis2. Experiment with different types of sessions in Axis2. Learn different patterns of Enterprise deployment. Ensure reliability in your web service – a major concern in most enterprise applications – with minimum impact on performance.

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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
• Control configuration and communications programmatically
• Implement message encryption, authentication, and authorization
• Manage identity with Windows CardSpace
• Begin working with Windows Workflow Foundation to create scalable and durable business services
• Implement service discovery and message routing
• Optimize performance with service throttling, encoding, and streaming Download Now »