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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 strategies, program graphics, and much more. This book contains the following: 1. An overview of how to design elegant user interfaces the average user can understand. 2. A comprehensive examination of the user interface controls and classes in .NET. 3. Best practices and design tips for coding user interfaces and integrating help Although this book isn't a reference, it does contain detailed discussions about every user interface element you'll use on a regular basis. But you won't just learn how to use .NET controls--you'll learn how and why to extend them with your own custom controls. As a developer, you need to know more than how to add a control to a window. You also need to know how to create an entire user interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable. About the Author Matthew MacDonald is an author, educator and MCSD developer. He's also a regular contributor to programming journals like ¿Inside Visual Basic and C# Today¿, and the author of several books about programming, including ¿The Book of VB .NET¿ and ¿ASP.NET The Complete Reference¿.

User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls goes beyond simply covering the Windows Forms namespaces by combining a careful treatment of the API with a detailed discussion of good user-interface design principles. The combination will show you how to create the next generation of software applications using the .NET Framework. After reading User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, you'll know how to design state-of-the-art application interfaces, as well as how to extend .NET controls, create data-binding strategies, program graphics, and much more.

This book contains the following:

• An overview of how to design elegant user interfaces the average user can understand.
• A comprehensive examination of the user interface controls and classes in .NET.
• Best practices and design tips for coding user interfaces and integrating help

Although this book isn't a reference, it does contain detailed discussions about every user interface element you'll use on a regular basis. But you won't just learn how to use .NET controlsyou'll learn how and why to extend them, with owner-drawn menus, irregularly shaped forms, and custom controls tailored for specific types of data. As a developer, you need to know more than how to add a control to a window. You also need to know how to create an entire use interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable.

EXAM PREP GUIDE Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-561—and on the job. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

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• Generate an EDM using the Entity Framework
• Use ADO.NET Data Services for Internet applications

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Windows Workflow Foundation is an addition to the WinFx SDK designed to allow any application to add workflow functionality. Similar in design to WCF, Windows Workflow Foundation is the infrastructure for creating workflows. Workflows are defined either graphically using the new Workflow Designer, or in code. Microsoft expects workflow to be one of the next hottest topics within application design and development.

This book helps audiences just beginning their workflow design efforts with WF. All code samples will be shown in both VB.NET and C# using Visual Studio 2005. This includes a sample ASP.NET application written in VB.NET that uses workflow and the Windows Workflow Foundation along with a windows application written in C# that uses the same workflow.

This book assumes only basic knowledge of VB .NET (although it contains a review of what is needed for those coming from a different background). But, by the end of it, the reader will have mastered the core knowledge needed to begin work as a professional ASP.NET developer. It places special emphasis on the techniques such as "code behind", that professionals need.

ASP.NET is the replacement for Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP). It is more scalable, faster and is arguably the best thing Microsoft has ever done in the Web development space. The recently released 1.1 version should spur adoptions (since many people wait for the 1.1 version of any Microsoft technology) ASP.NET, like its predecessor allows a Web site builder to dynamically build Web pages on the fly by inserting queries to a relational database in the Web page. ASP.NET is different than its predecessor in that it allows use of modern languages like VB .NET instead of scripting languages and it encourages correct programming style by allowing the separation of the design from the operational code.

Microsoft .NET is born out of a personal search for the Holy Grail of .NET for IT professionals. Unlike competing texts, it focuses on actual implementation and management issues critical to the success of an enterprise. Through Nigel Stanley's active consulting practice, he has gathered essential information for integrating the far-ranging components which .NET touches without hype or superfluous programming details.
Microsoft .NET revolutionizes the development, deployment and support of business applications. It introduces new technologies and concepts which have to be understood by today's IT professionals if they are to continue to be successful.
· Clear coverage of all the major .NET Enterprise Server products
· Introductions to important technologies such as SOAP, UDDI and XML
· Experiences drawn from real life customer situations focusing on important need-to-know material for the IT professional
· Appendix giving detailed specifications required to run the .NET Enterprise Servers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2004, held in Bologna, Italy in June 2004. The 19 revised full regular papers and 5 revised tool presentation papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems design and analysis, modular systems development, formal specification, model validation, model checking, workflow management, flow charts, networking, formal methods in software engineering, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2008, held in Xi'an, China, in June 2008.

The 23 revised full regular papers and 4 revised tool papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems are addressed.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, ICATPN 2007, held in Siedlce, Poland, in June 2007.

The 22 revised full papers and 3 revised tool papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 70 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems are addressed, in particular system design and verification, analysis, synthesis, structure and behaviour of nets, net theory and relations, causality/partial order theory of concurrency, semantic Web, logical and algebraic calculi, symbolic net representation, tools for nets, experience reports and case studies, educational issues, higher-level net models, timed and stochastic nets, as well as standardization of nets.