The most up-to-date and comprehensive introductory ASP.NET book you’ll
find on any shelf, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in VB 2008 guides you through
Microsoft’s latest technology for building dynamic web sites. This book
will enable you to build dynamic web pages on the fly, and it assumes
only the most basic knowledge of VB 2008. The book provides exhaustive
coverage of ASP.NET, guiding you from your first steps right up to the
most advanced techniques, such as querying databases from within a web
page and tuning your site for optimal performance. Within these pages,
you’ll find tips for “best practices” and comprehensive discussions of
key database and XML principles you need to know in order to be
effective with ASP.NET. The book also emphasizes the invaluable coding
techniques of object orientation and code behind, which will start you
off on the track to building real-world web sites right from the
beginning–rather than just faking it with simplified coding practices.
By the time you’ve finished the book, you will have mastered the core
techniques and have all the knowledge you need to begin work as a
professional ASP.NET developer.

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Released at the Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta, Georgia, back
in 2001, the first edition of this book coincided with the beta .NET
platform and, in many ways, the manuscript was in beta too. Its fresh
approach won a place as a 2002 Jolt Award finalist, and it won the 2003
Referenceware Excellence Award in the programming book category.
Following the successful earlier editions, author Andrew Troelsen is
pleased to announce completion of the fourth edition of his acclaimed
book:

“Over the years that I’ve spent working with the common language runtime
(CLR), I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the .NET platform and the
subtleties of the C# programming language. I’m happy to say that this
fourth edition of Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform is as close to a
‘final release’ as I’ve come yet!”

Whether you’re moving to .NET for the first time or you’re already
writing applications on .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0, Pro C# 2008 and the .NET
3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition will provide you with a solid grounding in
this new technology and serve as a comprehensive reference throughout
your coding career:

- Explore five new chapters of content—including the grammar of the
common intermediate language (CIL), .NET generics, and object
serialization services.
- Discover all the new .NET 3.5 features—nullable types, delegate
covariance, ASP.NET 2.0 master pages, the new Windows Forms &lquo;Strip”
controls, and much more.
- Get a professional foothold—targeted to appeal to experienced
software professionals and/or graduate students of computer science (so
don’t expect three chapters on iteration or decision constructs!).
- Gain a rock-solid foundation in programming using C#.
- Get comfortable with all the core aspects of the .NET
platform—including assemblies, remoting, Windows Forms, Web Forms,
ADO.NET, XML web services, and much more. Once you’ve digested the
information contained in the 25 chapters of this 1000+ page book, you’ll
be ready to apply this knowledge to your specific programming
assignments and well equipped to explore the .NET universe on your own.
What you’ll learn:

- Everything you need to put .NET 3.5 and C# 2008 to use in your
professional work–before anyone else!
- Insights and techniques from the author’s experience since .NET 1.0
- Complete coverage of .NET 3.5—WPF, WCF, and WF

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The Complete Reference to Professional SOA with Visual Studio 2005 (C# &
VB 2005) focuses on architecting and constructing enterprise-level
systems. Taking advantage of the newly released Visual Studio 2005
development environment, the book assesses the current service-oriented
platform and examines new ways to develop for scalability, availability,
and security (which have become available with .NET 2.0). You’ll get to
look closely at application infrastructure in terms of flexibility,
interoperability, and integration, as well as the decisions that have to
be made to achieve optimum balance within your architecture.

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With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites
and applications using Microsoft’s latest web development tools –
ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create
applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular
commercial web sites, such as order forms and the ability to interact
with a database. And you can build pages that display information
interactively without a page refresh. This straightforward tutorial
explains how. Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX helps you master the
concepts and techniques of Microsoft’s tools with plenty of annotated
examples, review quizzes, web construction exercises and chapter
summaries, so you can practice new skills and test your understanding as
you go. With it, you’ll learn to:

- Master the fundamental skills of ASP.NET 2.0 to build professional
quality web applications
- Integrate new Ajax tools and CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 for flashier and
more interactive sites
- Build applications with minimal coding using Visual Studio or its
free counterpart, Visual Web Developer
- Connect your site with a database so that users can retrieve,
interact and save data
- Debug your application, deal with unexpected problems, and protect
your site from malicious users
- Use the community-maintained ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to extend
the controls that come with ASP.NET AJAX
- Use personalization tools to give your site a customized look for
each user
Ideal for beginning web developers, or those who are new to ASP.NET,
this book gets you involved with your own learning through hands-on
lessons that are clear and to the point. You get the chance to try out
new techniques on the spot. Want to join the world of modern web
development? This book will get you started.

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An ASP.NET 2.0 book that just helps you get things done!
This book contains a collection of 101 best practice, object oriented
solutions that you can easily adapt to your own projects. Coverage
includes:

- Working with text, numbers, dates & times
- Accessing data with ADO.NET
- Form validation under multiple scenerios
- Page, Session and application state tips
- Access control in web applications
- Producing standards compliant output
- Enhancing applications with AJAX
- Working with Email
- Handling errors and debugging
- Performance tips and pitfalls
- And much more!
As a bonus, all book buyers get download access to the code archive
which has all the examples in the book in both C# and VB.

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If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows
Vista’s new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft’s
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated
for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed
on this technology quickly. By page 2, you’ll be writing a simple WPF
application. By the end of Chapter 1, you’ll have taken a complete tour
of WPF and its major elements. WPF is the new presentation framework for
Windows Vista that also works with Windows XP. It’s a cornucopia of new
technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D
graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language, called
XAML, for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new
model for controls. This second edition includes new chapters on
printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new
appendix that covers Microsoft’s new WPF/E platform for delivering
richer UI through standard web browsers — much like Adobe Flash.
Content from the first edition has been significantly expanded and
modified. Programming WPF includes:

- Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a
WPF application up and running, from a simple “Hello, Avalon” program to
a tic-tac-toe game
- Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that
WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls
- A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and
other graphics effects
- A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring
Windows UI
- An explanation and comparison of the features that support
interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy
applications WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world
and the content-based web world. Programming WPF helps you bring it all
together.

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If you work at all with Internet-facing solutions, you know that the
lack of an identity metasystem is a critical vulnerability in the
design. Various consortiums have worked to define a system of
identity–a platform-agnostic way of communicating and validating claims
of identity. If you work with identity solutions or structures, you will
find Beginning Information Cards and CardSpace: From Novice to
Professional essential to understanding and successfully implementing
CardSpace solutions. Topics range from fundamental discussion of
identity–including identity concepts, laws of identity, and the
identity metasystem–to comprehensive coverage of Windows CardSpace.
You’ll learn what CardSpace is all about, where you can and should use
it, and how you would implement it. Additionally, multiple case studies
showcase different scenarios where the technology is employed.

- You’ll learn the technology from someone who’s done real
implementations with major customers.
- Author Marc Mercurri works directly with the Windows CardSpace
product group.
- High-quality demos with universal themes are applicable to your own
work.

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Themes are a way to allow programmers to establish “skinnable” websites
that can be programmatically adjusted for various purposes. A webmaster
may decide that there should be a certain look and feel for site
administrators while registered users see a different look and the
remaining users see still a different view when they visit the site.
This could include, among other things, completely different controls,
graphics, and/or color schemes for each group. Users may want to set up
a theme specifically targeted to meet the needs of the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) that removes all images and background colors and
leaves the pages in stark contrast for that particular user group. Or
maybe the developer just wants to let people choose the way they
experience the site each time they visit. Themes are very powerful and
this book aims to highlight the potential of ASP.NET 2.0 Themes as well
as their relationship to master pages and CSS in web applications today
and illustrate many of the facets that can and should be included in
theme development. While not specifically a designer’s book, an overview
of good web design and even a cheater’s guide to PhotoShop will be
included with the intent of taking the average ASP.NET Programmer and
given them the knowledge to be “Renaissance Men and Women” of web
design. Specific topics covered in the book include:

- Browser, bandwidth, and accessibility considerations
- Use of color, fonts, multimedia
- CSS classes, elements, and Visual Studio CSS tools
- Master pages, child pages, and inheritance
- Consistent navigation and Site Maps
- Theme files, skin files, and applying themes
- A mobile theme example
- Basic PhotoShop tricks for Web Developers

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