Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276 EAN: 9780596527563 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 059652756X Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 476 Publication Date: August 05, 2008 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 47272 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product Description.NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies. In Programming .NET 3.5, bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks. While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a 'Grand Tour' of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications. Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this hands-on guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy. The concepts and technologies that this book covers include: XAML -- Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- a new presentation framework and graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp Ajax Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols Workflow Foundation (WF) -- framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows CardSpace -- framework for managing the identities of your users You'll learn how to useeach of the four frameworks alone and in concert to build a series of meaningful example applications. Examples are written in C#, and all of the source code will be available for download at both the O'Reilly and the authors' site, which offers access to a free support forum. Between them, authors Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz have nearly forty years of experience in delivering commercial applications for companies such as Citibank, Apple, AT&T, NeXt, PBS, Ziff Davis, and dozens of smaller organizations. Their combined experience is valuable for telling the story of .NET 3.5 and how it will shorten the development life cycle for applications developers, and enhance your productivity.
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Rating: - The fastest way to come up to speed?
Some programming books suffer from the Three Little Bears syndrome: they're too detailed or not detailed enough, too conceptual or not conceptual enough, too much of a tutorial or not enough of a tutorial, and so on. The authors of Programming .NET 3.5 solved this problem by establishing clear goals for their book and by combining the insights of a senior program manager at Microsoft (Jesse Liberty) with those of a chief technology officer at an application development firm (Alex Horovitz).
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Rating: - Excellent resource for .NET 3.5!
I just finished reading Programming .NET 3.5 from O'Reilly. The book, published in August, is an overview of the latest .NET Framework revision. You'll get an introduction to the topics that have been introduced along the way that include technology from .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, and the latest version; .NET 3.5. Also included are libraries such as ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight.
You can easily pick up this book and enjoy the introductions to technologies such as Windows Communication Foundation, ... Read More
Rating: - Recommended for .Net developers and intermediate programmers
The book is very useful if you are interested in working with XML. It starts step by step and get harder through the book. The book itself is designed for intermediate level or experts. I don't recommend this book for beginners in XML. Part two of the book talks about design patterns, and the third part tells the programmer how to work with databases and about the state machine. It is harder than the first and second parts and readers should be more proficient than beginner or intermediate level. The ... Read More
Rating: - A tour of .NET 3.5
This book is very different than most of the book I have purchased on .NET because it covers XAML, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Ajax, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Workflow Foundation (WF), CardSpace, as well as the industry standard patterns Microsoft has incorporated in these technologies.
None of the technologies are gone into in great depth, and I thought I would be slamming them for that, but I can't because they tell us upfront they don't do that. I ... Read More
Rating: - The Nuts and Bolts of Using WPF, WCF, WF, XAML, Linq
The first half of this readable book focuses on WPF/XAML. It's not how to use tools, it's how to create Windows interfaces directly in XML. Useful if you want to build interfaces manually, or to want to understand or customize what's going one level below screen-drawing GUI generators like Visual Studio 2008. (Or if you want to create your own generator).
The second half begins with a review of common design patterns (MVC, Pub/Sub, Factory, Singleton, etc.) Then there's a chapter on LINQ, ... Read More
- The fastest way to come up to speed?
- Recommended for .Net developers and intermediate programmers
