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To be a successful ASP.NET 4.0 developer you need to know how to apply the vast array of new functionality available in the latest release of the .NET 4.0 framework and Visual Studio 2010.
This book will immerse you in a variety of advanced topics including architecting different application data tiers, memory caching paradigms, data mining, search engine optimization, and other common topics which are complex to implement properly. Working through step-by-step exercises using P/LINQ, DLR, MEF, MVC, IronPython, Axum and AJAX, you will be immersed in a variety of approaches to building each of the key application tiers common to all web solutions.
Using a proven technique of illustrating advanced concepts with a functional solution, all topics in the book are modeled on a fully operational content management system (CMS), built from the ground up. This ensures that you are introduced to real-world examples which demonstrate the full functionality of the .NET 4.0 framework for ASP.NET, and that you are able to apply your new skills to any web development situation that arises.

Ace your preparation for the skills measured by three required MCPD: Web Developer exams—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and labs.

PRACTICE TESTS

Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path that describes how and where to focus your studies.

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EXAM 70-536 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation

• Use types, collections, generics, and regular expressions to manage data
• Develop services, application domains, and multithreaded applications
• Implement code access and role-based security, and data encryption
• Work with serialization and reflection techniques
• Instrument applications with logging and tracing
• Interact with legacy code using COM Interop and PInvoke

EXAM 70-528 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development

• Create, trace, configure, and deploy Web applications
• Integrate data into your application using Microsoft ADO.NET, XML, and data-bound controls
• Implement forms authentication, impersonation, and login controls
• Configure user controls and create custom Web controls
• Use themes, user profiles, and Web parts for customizable, personalized Web sites
• Manage server-side and client-side application state

EXAM 70-547 Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework

• Evaluate Web application requirements and build a validation prototype
• Use style sheets, master pages, Web parts, and user controls for a consistent UI
• Design, develop, and implement application components
• Develop mechanisms for data access, exception handing, event logging, and application feedback
• Define, assess, and implement a testing strategy
• Validate a deployment plan and analyze performance to determine readiness

Your all-in-one kit includes:

• Official self-paced study guides for three required exams.
• Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
• 1200+ practice and review questions.
• Case scenarios and lab exercises.
• Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples on CD.
• 15% exam discount from Microsoft; good for three exams. Offer expires 12/31/11. Voucher inside.
• 90-day evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition.
• Fully searchable eBooks for all three guides.

Exam 70-316 measures the ability to develop and implement Windows-based applications by using Windows Forms and the Microsoft .NET Framework. This exam counts as a core credit toward the new MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application Developer) certification as well as a core credit toward the MCSD .NET certification. This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead it assumes that you have a solid foundation of knowledge but can use a refresher on important concepts as well as a guide to exam topics and objectives. This book focuses exactly on what you need to pass the exam - it features test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, and a special Cram Sheet that includes tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else. The series is supported online at several Web sites: examcram.com, informit.com, and cramsession.com.

The accompanying CD features PrepLogic™ Practice Tests, Preview Edition. This product includes one complete PrepLogic Practice Test with approximately the same number of questions found on the actual vendor exam. Each question contains full, detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answers. The engine offers two study modes, Practice Test and Flash Review, full exam customization, and a detailed score report.

Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. Blending together the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer operating system.

Its functionality extends to the support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data driven UI and visualization, as well as the integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell.

This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. Having build a firm foundation it also explores the more advance aspects of WPF and how they relates to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 Platform and its associated technologies such as Silverlight.

This book has provided me with the information to jump right into creating web applications with Visual Basic. It is an excellent training guide and at the same time, it provides real-world examples that can be reused in multiple projects and applications. (A developer's comment on the previous edition of Murach's ASP.NET, posted online)

Already know how to code in Visual Basic 2010? Then, master web programming with this .NET 4 edition of the ASP.NET book that's a favorite of developers. It teaches beginners how to develop web applications from scratch, while more seasoned professionals use it as a time-saving guide whenever they need the "how-to" details that take forever to find online.

Here's a quick rundown on what developers have always liked best about this book:

#1: Complete applications show you how all the pieces interact
The key to mastering ASP.NET 4 is to have plenty of real-world applications that guide you in using the skills you're learning...and that help you avoid the problems that you can run into as you build complex web sites. That's why this book gives you complete applications, including the web forms, the aspx code, and the VB code. Download the applications for free from the Murach website, and experiment with them on your own to see how valuable they are.

#2: It gives you a 6-chapter section on database programming that's geared to business applications
Database handling is crucial in business programming, yet it's glossed over in just a chapter or two in many books. In contrast, this 6-chapter section teaches you how to use SQL data sources and ASP.NET data controls to develop database applications with little or no VB code. Then, it teaches how to use object data sources to create 3-layer applications that let you separate the presentation code from the data access code. And each topic is illustrated using examples like maintenance and shopping cart applications...the kind of database applications you'll deal with every day.

#3: It teaches you ASP.NET development the way it should be done, using Visual Studio 2010
The 1.x edition of this book was one of the first to teach web development using Visual Studio instead of tools like Notepad. Today, no developer should miss out on the productivity features of Visual Studio 2010. So they're integrated throughout this book, rather than being relegated to just a chapter or two at the beginning.

#4: It teaches you ASP.NET 4 features when they're appropriate, not just convenient
In contrast to some books, the ASP.NET 4 features haven't just been tacked onto the chapters from the previous .NET 3.5 edition. Instead, author Anne Boehm has carefully analyzed how the changes affect the way you develop web applications and what you need to learn when. That means this book integrates the new material with the classic ASP.NET features that haven't changed, giving you a cohesive, fluid approach to learning web programming the way it's done today.

#5: The distinctive paired-pages format* makes learning...and reference...a breeze
A few years ago, a customer used the term "paired pages" to describe our presentation style, and the name has stuck. It means that this book presents each topic in a two-page spread. The right page gives screen shots, code, syntax, bulleted details whatever is needed to illustrate and summarize the topic; the left page provides extra explanation and perspective as needed. That makes it easy for developers at any level to skim through material they already know and focus on what's new to them. It means less reading for everyone. And it makes the book a quick and easy-to-use reference guide once you're done training.
(*To see how the paired pages work, you can download free chapters from the Murach web site.)

Microsoft Visual Basic / Visual Studio enable developers to build applications rapidly. The visual designers, code editor, language, and debugger accelerate the development and deployment of robust, elegant applications across the Web, a business group, or an enterprise.
With the Microsoft Visual Basic / Visual Studio 2008 Video Tutorial, you can teach yourself the essentials of working with Microsoft Visual Studio. Whether you're a beginner programmer or new to Visual Basic, we teach the core capabilities and fundamental techniques for building applications and web/database applications. Created by experienced programmers and features easy-to-follow lessons.
Total length: 131 video lessons; running time 11:21 hrs. English soundtrack. Plays in your computer DVD player & via our online interface (immediate online access provided).
VTN tutorials have won YouTube user awards and been featured in leading computer journals: "This is the best quality & value self-learning product available on the market." We have been creating high quality, excellent value video tutorials since 2004.
Immediate online access provided and the DVD ships same day you order. International shipping available.
Complete course contents and video samples available.
Vol 1 - Building Applications.
Vol 2 - Building Web & Database Applications.
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Harness the power of .NET Remoting to build complex and secure distributed applications

Microsoft’s .NET Remoting takes building distributed applications to the next level. This innovative book, written by Microsoft insider David Conger, gets you up and running with .NET Remoting – fast. Starting with the basics of .NET technologies and tools as well as a simple client/server program, you’ll learn how to exchange data across networks and communicate with remote objects and other distributed systems. You’ll also learn how to securely deploy remote objects and client programs on networks, and then across the Internet as Web services. Finally, Conger demonstrates how you can extend and enhance the capabilities of the .NET Remoting system in order to use it to its full potential.

Using a comprehensible step-by-step approach and numerous C# code examples, this book will show you how to use .NET Remoting to:

• Build multi-tiered applications that can interoperate with components written in different languages
• Use remote objects as Web services to provide secure access to corporate applications
• Manage the "lifetime" of remote objects by controlling and maintaining their state
• Add custom security measures to distributed applications
• Execute asynchronous calls across networks

The companion Web site contains all the source code and executables from the book.

About Gearhead Press

Responding to the ongoing needs of IT professionals for current and reliable information on the latest technologies, Wiley Technology Publishing introduces the Gearhead Press titles. These books, written by accomplished trainers in their respective fields, focus on real-world examples and case studies to give readers the best information on leading topics.

The In the Trenches imprint of Gearhead Press includes fast-paced books written by fellow IT professionals who have been there and done that. In the Trenches books guide readers to proficiency, and serve as practical, hands-on references after the initial tasks are accomplished.

Intermediate and advanced coverage of Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 for professional developers

If you've already covered the basics and want to dive deep into VB and .NET topics that professional programmers use most, this is your book. You'll find a quick review of introductory topics-always helpful-before the author team of experts moves you quickly into such topics as data access with ADO.NET, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows workflow, threading, and more.

You'll explore all the new features of Visual Basic 2010 as well as all the essential functions that you need, including .NET features such as LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, WCF, and more. Plus, you'll examine exception handling and debugging, Visual Studio features, and ASP.NET web programming.

• Expert author team helps you master the tools and techniques you need most for professional programming
• Reviews why Visual Basic 2010 will be synonymous with writing code in Visual Studio 2010
• Focuses on .NET features such as LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, WPF, workflow, and more
• Discusses exception handling and debugging, data access with ADO.NET, Visual Studio features for Visual Basic developers, Windows programming with Windows Forms, ASP.NET web programming with VB, communication interfaces, Windows workflow, and threading

This Wrox guide presents you with updated coverage on topics you need to know now.

Since its inception during the Great Depression the Dictionary of Occupational Titles has been relied on for the description of jobs and workforce development. However, as global competition and technological change has created a new world of work, the Department of Labor realized that a more flexible and precise system for chronicling work-related information was needed. Thus, the O*NET, or the occupational information network, was launched. Written by the developers of the O*NET system, this edited volume describes the research and methodology used in the design and development of this ground-breaking system. The O*NET is intended to provide a framework for describing jobs in terms that are capable of addressing the needs of workers and employers into the 21st Century. Instead of relying on rigid task descriptions, the O*NET uses domains of worker and occupation characteristics--such as abilities, work styles, generalized work activities and work context--to describe each job. This volume details each of the main domains used by the O*NET. It outlines how each was quantified and provides statistical analyses about its applications, internal relationships, and structure. The volume also places the O*NET system in its historical research context and describes how this innovative new system can support the creation of jobs tailored for the new economy. This volume will be invaluable for those needing to familiarize themselves with this powerful new human resource tool. It will be of particular interest to industrial/organizational psychologists, human factors specialists, counseling psychologists, vocational counselors, rehabilitation counselors, industrial engineers, occupational professionals, and labor market analysts.

This developer's guide provides a resource for the professional developer seeking to create complex, robust and high performance applications with visual C++.Net. It covers how to build multiple applications for the Web and the desktop through extensive coverage on ADO, ADO+, threads, active directory, attributed programming, security, debugging, graphic animation and streaming video. It explains visual C++.NET's relationship to the .NET framework and how to utilize Visual C++.NET's debugging capability. Readers can learn programming techniques to integrate graphic animation and streaming video into a site and how to make applications PDA-compatible and understand and design a secure application. The CD contains all of the book's source code.