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Take your ASP.NET 4.0 programming skills to the top tier

Deliver faster, lighter, more efficient distributed applications using the powerful technologies and tools available in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Written by a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, this definitive guide lays out each development tactic alongside detailed code samples and real-world examples. Build feature-rich web applications, leverage the power of the ASP.NET MVC framework, interface with databases using ADO.NET, create modular Web Parts, integrate Dynamic Data controls, and deploy all-new Ajax and LINQ features. ASP.NET 4.0 Programming also covers the latest security, verification, tracing, and troubleshooting techniques.

• Design, debug, and administer cutting-edge web sites and applications
• Work with Web Parts, Web Services, ADO.NET, and the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• Maintain state, application, and session data across multiple requests
• Use namespaces to create multilingual, globalized, and localized applications
• Build and distribute powerful RIAs using Silverlight, Ajax, and SOAP
• Develop data-driven applications with LINQ and Entity Framework
• Leverage WCF features in ASP.NET applications
• Implement reliable role- and membership-based security policies
• Optimize page load time, memory usage, and database query performance
• Simplify event handling, animation, and document traversing with jQuery

Joydip Kanjilal has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET since 2007. He has more than 12 years of IT experience with more than six years in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. Joydip also has authored multiple books, and magazine articles for various programming sites. He was selected as an MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight several times. Joydip was also a community credit winner at www.community-credit.com.

This issue focuses on WPF and Silverlight as well as other .NET topics.
Table of Contents:
*) Back to Basics
*) MVP Corner: Good Contracts or Good Friends
*) SharePoint 2007 and the Thin .NET 3.5 Development Model
*) Build Composite WPF Applications
*) Speed Up Project Delivery with Repeatability
*) Using CSLA .NET for Silverlight to Build Line-of-Business Applications
*) Programming with the Microsoft Business Rules Framework
*) Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! James Kovacs Inverts Our Control
*) Have It Your Way
*) Ask the Doc Detective
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Agile Development
Table of Contents:
*) Boy Scouts, D&D, and Community
*) Individuagility
*) SharePoint Applied: CAML, Your New Pet
*) Managing an Agile Software Project
*) Introduction to Scrum
*) Behavior-Driven Development
*) The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Database Web Applications Using ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
*) Using Continuous Integration to Reduce Project Friction
*) Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 2
*) Heard on .NET Rocks! Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database
*) Ask the Doc Detective
*) Things Fall Apart
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