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User Interfaces in VB. NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls goes beyond simple coverage of the Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces by combining a careful treatment of the API with a detailed discussion of good user-interface design principles. After reading User Interfaces in VB. NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, you'll know how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, program graphics, and much more. This book contains the following: An overview of how to design elegant user i...

The technical book market today is flooded with a slew of titles on how to build applications with the .NET technology, and many are undoubtedly very good. But the majority of these titles simply take a "how-to" approach on programming with the .NET Framework. They often pay little more than cursory attention to the real-world issues and challenges that developers face. Performance is one of those challenges. This book is for intermediate to advanced .NET developers who need answers to the hard...

Microsoft developers, get ready for Windows Vista programming! Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation: Hands-on addresses an unmet need in the marketplace as there are no books, or much documentation at all, of the post-Beta 1 WCF programming model. This book contains the information you will need to work with this technology upon its release.   You will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to apply the Windows Communication Foundation to almost any distributed computing problem, fro...

Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition is the affordable, accessible route to learning the .NET programming languages. Author Peter Wright proved his ability to teach Visual Basic to over 100,000 aspiring programmers during the 1990s with his line of best–sellers. Now that Microsoft is launching its new Express products, Wright is repeating his mission to teach you how to program, providing a friendly, clear message along the way. Wright helps you explore Visual Basic 2005 Express. You'll l...

DotNetNuke is a programming framework that helps you create and deploy web projects in ASP.NET 2.0. Its ease of use means that even non-programmers can take advantage of the ASP.NET 2.0 features when building a web site. It integrates with many of Microsoft's other free products, like SQL Server 2005 Express, which makes it a powerful and attractive option for developing web sites. Beginning DotNetNuke 4.0 Website Creation in VB 2005 with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express contains detailed instr...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Take control of SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell!Administer SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell with help from this practical guide. PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators explains how to configure and manage the latest version of the powerful enterprise collaboration platform. Find out how to auto...

The fast and easy guide for creating Windows 8 apps using popular technologies! This book offers a primer for building HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript applications for Windows 8. It includes an up-to-date guide for dusting off an aging HTML skill set and adapting to the Windows 8 apps and provides a reference for Windows and .NET programmers not familiar with HTML5. The overall design principles of MetroUI (the new design paradigm for Windows) are discussed. The book also addresses visual design with...

Master the powerful BI tools available in Microsoft SQL Server 2016Enable informed, timely decision making across any type of organization using the expert tips and best practices contained in this hands-on guide. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Fourth Edition, fully explains how to effectively develop, customize, and distribute meaningful information.Thoroughly revised for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the book shows, step-by-step, how to configure and populate dat...

The 2.0 version of ASP.NET includes many practical functions and a lot of frequently requested features, including Master Pages, Themes, site navigation, site counters and many more. And with the help of the new provider model, you can now create many functions in so-called zero-code scenarios, without even one line of source code. Furthermore, the new version offers features for building web applications in Visual Studio .NET, including full IntelliSense for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and inline...

Pro Expression Blend 4 is for .NET developers and graphical artists who want to learn the ins and outs of the Expression Blend integrated development environment. You may know already that this tool can be used to build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications; however, this book will take you well beyond the basics and provide you with a detailed examination of key Blend topics, including workspace customization, graphics, layout, styles, themes, data...

This book provides a fresh take on Microsoft’s premier collaboration solution. A critical resource if you’re developing on the SharePoint platform, this book features a complete focus on the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Through a thorough treatment of sites, web parts, data management, portal solutions, and business intelligence capabilities, you’ll appreciate author Sahil Malik’s concise yet highly readable text. With this book, you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance for...

Determine your object relational mapper (ORM) of choice for enterprise applications using .NET Framework, and especially .NET Framework Core 3.1 and higher. Real-world examples and considerations are presented in this book to help you create robust and efficient database solutions. Throughout the text, actual problems, questions, and common pitfalls are provided to help you recognize optimal solutions for maximum success in the different application scenarios you might encounter.  Practical Enti...

Windows PowerShell transformed the way administrators and developers interact with Windows. PowerShell, an elegant dynamic language from Microsoft, lets its users script administrative tasks and control Windows from the command line. Because it's a full-featured, first-class Windows programming language, programmers and powerusers can now do things in a shell that previously required VB, VBScript, or C#.   Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is a completely revised edition of the bestse...

Microsoft Expression Suite promises new levels of power in creating rich dynamic user experiences on the web; Expression Web, one of the excellent programs within the suite, is a powerful web site creation tool that allows you to rapidly build up standards-compliant web pages, style them with CSS, add dynamic ASP.NET functionality to them, and publish them to the weball from the comfort of one program. Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond is one of the first books avail...

“For several years, Troy has been one of the key figures in the LINQ community. This comprehensive and well-written book serves as a compendium of the important wisdom and experience that he has accumulated through his years of studying LINQ and its uses.”       –Charlie Calvert, Microsoft C# Community Program Manager   “LINQ is changing the way we think about working with data and, in many ways, also about programming in general. LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0 is a thorough reference that teac...

Any Windows programmer using .NET will need to deal with Windows Forms, also known as WinForms. And use of .NET among Windows programmers continues to grow at a rapid pace. The bestselling book on WinForms 1.X, and by far the best reviewed one, was Chris Sells' book. Chris and his coauthor, Mike Weinhardt, have updated it completely for the just released WinForms 2.0. The first edition was so successful in fact that there will be much less competition for this new edition. It is almost twice as...

Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight takes you through your first steps in creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft’s technology. You’ll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive .NET 4 libraries, the powerful, desi...