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Applied ADO.NET: Building Data-Driven Solutions provides extensive coverage of ADO.NET technology, including ADO.NET internals, namespaces, classes, and interfaces. Whereas most books cover only the SQL and OLE DB data providers, authors Mahesh Chand and David Talbot detail the SQL, OLE DB, and ODBC data providers, as well as additions to ADO.NET, the Oracle, MySQL, and XML .NET data providers. Chand and Talbot also cover the internals of data binding and provide detailed coverage of both Window...

This book reveals the technical challenges and successful implementation details of migrating MSN, Microsoft’s consumer content portal--a business with 450 million worldwide users--into the Cloud. Following a technique long used in aviation, medicine, and other fields, MSN’s Chief Technical Officer, Eric Passmore, describes the set of release, deployment, monitoring, and mitigation checklists used to build cloud services supporting hundreds of millions of users on Azure, Microsoft’s Publi...

Learn and understand Microsoft Teams functionality, potential issues, and the tools available to troubleshoot Teams. This book provides a complete overview of Teams Phone system (PSTN) connectivity, call routing and quality troubleshooting, and best practices to support a Teams environment.The book begins with an introduction to Microsoft Teams and it provides a troubleshooting terminology. You will understand how to identify and develop a systematic approach for troubleshooting Teams. You will...

Gain an in depth view of optimizing the performance of BizTalk Server. This book provides best practices and techniques for improving development of high mission critical solutions.  You'll see how the BizTalk Server engine works and how to proactively detect and remedy potential bottlenecks before they occur. The book starts with an overview of the BizTalk Server internal mechanisms that will help you understand the optimizations detailed throughout the book. You'll then see how the mechanis...

Provides information on using Visual Basic, covering such topics as setting properties, using controls, building an application, scripting, debugging, and creating a database.

Use this in-depth guide to correctly design benchmarks, measure key performance metrics of .NET applications, and analyze results. This book presents dozens of case studies to help you understand complicated benchmarking topics. You will avoid common pitfalls, control the accuracy of your measurements, and improve performance of your software. Author Andrey Akinshin has maintained BenchmarkDotNet (the most popular .NET library for benchmarking) for five years and covers common mistakes that deve...

Protect your data from attack by using SQL Server technologies to implement a defense-in-depth strategy for your database enterprise. This new edition covers threat analysis, common attacks and countermeasures, and provides an introduction to compliance that is useful for meeting regulatory requirements such as the GDPR. The multi-layered approach in this book helps ensure that a single breach does not lead to loss or compromise of confidential, or business sensitive data. Database professionals...

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide is a quick reference for resolving problems that intermediate-to-advanced Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) administrators are likely to face. Authors Andy Dominey and Garry Meaburn have experience with both deploying and troubleshooting MOM in large-scale environments, and the problems and solutions they discuss are ones they have actually faced in their careers. This book is ideal if you're already familiar with MOM, but are not yet an expert at a...

Windows Presentation Foundation is a cutting-edge presentation framework for creating high-fidelity applications for Windows Vista and Windows XP. WPF is a composite technology with a noteworthy graphics engine that gives you more control over your applications screen output than has ever been possible in Windows before. New control frameworks and a new XML-based markup language, XAML, complete the core WPF package. On top of this, WPF can be linked to the new Microsoft Expression Suite to simpl...

Unlock the potential of .NET to craft, test, and deploy robust CLI applications, including development, security, and monitoring Key Features Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to build CLI applications with .NET Master advanced techniques for creating cross-platform, modular, and robust CLI applications Apply your knowledge through hands-on experience with practical exercises and projects Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionDevelopers and sys...

Know how to use the features of Visual Studio 2019 and utilize the IDE correctly to become your one-stop solution for creating quality code. Learn what's new in VS 2019 and explore the existing features of Visual Studio so you can use them more efficiently.  Getting Started with Visual Studio 2019 begins with an overview of Visual Studio and explores new features such as Visual Studio Live Share, Visual Studio Search, Solution Filters, and Intellicode. Author Dirk Strauss teaches you how to crea...

Silverlight 4 is Microsoft's cross-browser technology for creating rich user experiences on the Web. Like its predecessor, Silverlight 3, it rides atop the .NET framework for maximum ease of use and coding efficiency. The new technology carries forward much of the work that has been done before and augments it in many important respects, including support for H.264 video, major improvements to the graphics engine (including true 3D rendering), and much richer data-binding options for interfacing...

* Gives you a deep understanding of the implications of every decision you can make in designing a class, so you are better equipped to take full advantage of C#'s power to create robust, flexible, reusable classes * Lifts the lid on the simple syntax and examines what it really does behind the scenes * Covers all the fundamentals on classes: the role of types in .NET, the different kinds of type C# creates, fundamental role of methods as containers of program logic, how .NET's delegate-based ev...

Break the vicious circle of designs perpetuating the errors of the past and “just click next and accept the defaults” implementations preventing a secure and reliable future. This book looks at the typical patterns and antipatterns in Active Directory (AD) design, deployment, and operations and provides an approach to building and operating AD that is based on engineering (analyzing and fulfilling requirements) rather than design (formulating requirements).   The book starts with an historical...

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with AngularJS in your Microsoft .NET environment. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds on your .NET skills and knowledge, helping you quickly learn the essentials of AngularJS, and use it to streamline any web development project. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. Q&A sections, quizzes, and exercises help you build and test y...

Master machine learning concepts and develop real-world solutions Machine learning offers immense opportunities, and Introducing Machine Learning delivers practical knowledge to make the most of them. Dino and Francesco Esposito start with a quick overview of the foundations of artificial intelligence and the basic steps of any machine learning project. Next, they introduce Microsoft’s powerful ML.NET library, including capabilities for data processing, training, and evaluation. They present fa...

In this guide, Visual Basic guru Dan Appleman takes aim at VB.Net, explaining both the technology features of VB.Net, the reasons for them and the controversies around some of those choices. "Moving to VB.NET" is divided into three parts: "Strategies", "Concepts" and "Code". "Strategies" explains how VB.Net is perfect for new development of Web and other server side applications - but that supporting the existing code may be disastrous - and how economics and human nature will play as strong a r...

Build robust modern web applications using .NET 5, Entity Framework Core, and Angular 11Key FeaturesUpdated with the latest features and additions in ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular 11Design, build, and deploy a Single Page Application or Progressive Web AppAdopt a full stack approach to handle data management, Web APIs, application design, testing, SEO, security, and deploymentBook DescriptionLearning full-stack development calls for knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development. ASP.NET...