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The Microsoft .NET initiative builds on industry standards to make interoperable software services available anywhere, on any device, over the Internet. Behind the initiative is the Microsoft .NET Framework, which combines a managed run-time environment with one of the richest class libraries ever invented to make building and deploying Web-enabled applications easier than ever. Find out how to leverage the full power of the .NET Framework with this definitive, one-stop resource, wri tten by a leading authority in his trademark easy-to-follow, conversational style. You’ll learn about the key programming models embodied in the .NET Framework, including Windows® Forms, Web Forms, and XML Web services. And you’ll benefit from a wealth of how-to examples, code samples, and complete working programs in C#.

Topics covered in this guide include:

• Hello, .NET
• Types and Exceptions
• The .NET Framework Class Library
• Windows Forms
• Web Forms
• Web Controls
• User Controls
• Custom Controls
• Web Applications
• Microsoft ASP.NET Security
• XML Web Services
• Microsoft ADO.NET
• XML
• Multithreading
• Remoting

CD-ROM FEATURES:

• A fully searchable electronic version of the book
• Source code for more than 60 complete sample programs and components written in C#
• The Microsoft .NET Framework SDK, plus Service Pack 1

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There has been a huge surge in interest in ‘Web 2.0’ technologies over the last couple of years. Microsoft’s contribution to this area has been the ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight technologies, coupled to a supporting framework of ancillary tools.

This book aims to be a no nonsense introduction to these technologies for the rapidly growing number of people who are realizing that they need Microsoft-based‘Web 2.0’ skills on their CV. It gives people a grounding in the core concepts of the technologies and shows how they can be used together to produce the results that people need.

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in like Flash that delivers rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports a number of different programming languages and techniques (making it cross-platform) and all major browsers (cross-browser support).

There is lots of interest in Microsoft’s Flash killer and several conferences have seen heavy support for the tech. There is little published information on this on the market now and we will be one of, if not the, first to market with info on Silverlight.

At the heart of Apple's hugely popular iLife software suite-iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand, and iTunes-is QuickTime, the powerful media engine that drives elegant applications for managing movies, images, and audio files. The enduring success of QuickTime is in no small part attributable to its component architecture. This key feature has allowed it to embrace emerging digital media technologies and standards one by one as they have appeared over the 12 or so years since its launch. None of the competing technologies even comes close, let alone on both Mac OS X and Windows.
QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers is the first guide to QuickTime for developers using popular RAD tools such a Visual Basic .NET, C#, and Visual Basic 6. A general introduction to QuickTime is followed by a detailed explanation of the QuickTime architecture from a.NET and COM perspective, liberally accompanied by code snippets. A number of implementation examples illustrate key QuickTime features, ranging from a simple movie player to a sophisticated interactive application. Also covered is QuickTime scripting in both QuickTime Player (using Windows Scripting) and in Microsoft Office applications (using VBA). Brief guides to developing with QuickTime in Delphi and ATL/WTL are also included.
Part of the official Quicktime Developer Series, publishing the finest books on QuickTime in cooperation with Apple.
* The first book on QuickTime for .NET and COM application and scripting developers
* Written by one of the architects of Apple's QuickTime ActiveX/COM control
* Offers numerous sample applications and code examples

What is this book about?

If you want to use Visio to create enterprise software, this is the book for you.

The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects provides a formidable tool. Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out databases with Entity Relationship diagrams, and aiding the development of distributed systems. Its integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic .NET code can be generated from the UML diagrams, and Visual Studio .NET projects can be reverse engineered to UML models.

For the developer already familiar with UML and looking to get the best out of Visio, the Visual Studio .NET and Visio for Enterprise Architects combination is weakly documented, and the quality information needed to realize the time-saving features of Visio just does not seem to be available, until now.

This book presumes that you are already familiar with the basic concepts of UML notation — this book will not teach you UML. Instead, this book will take you forward into the Visio environment, showing you how to make the most of its software related features.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you'll learn how to

• Diagram business components in Visio
• Generate code from a UML model
• Reverse engineer Visual Studio .NET projects into a UML model
• Reverse engineer into a UML model without source code
• Document the project with UML and Visio
• Design distributed applications with Visio's diagrams
• Work with Entity Relationship database modeling, and round-trip engineering for database design

With SharePoint 2010, developers finally have the powerful, end-to-end development tools they need to build outstanding solutions quickly and painlessly. What’s more, those tools are built directly into the latest version of Visual Studio, the development platform most Microsoft developers already know. In this book, the Microsoft experts who created these tools show you how to take full advantage of them.

The authors focus specifically on the SharePoint scenarios that Visual Studio 2010 now makes accessible to mainstream Microsoft developers. They assume no experience with SharePoint development and focus on SharePoint Foundation 2010: the low-cost version designed for organizations and departments of all kinds, not just large enterprises.

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010shows how to get your solution up and running fast, and then extend it to meet your precise business requirements. You’ll learn how to develop, package, and deploy robust SharePoint business collaboration applications without any unnecessary complexity or overhead.

Following a practical, developer-focused introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010, you’ll learn about

• Visual Studio 2010 templates and tools that simplify the creation of SharePoint solutions
• The SharePoint object model and its most frequently used methods, properties, and events
• Using lists to store, manage, and share data
• Responding to events related to lists, features, items, or workflows
• Integrating external data with Business Data Connectivity Services
• Using content types that ship with SharePoint 2010—and creating new ones
• Building multi-step workflows and custom forms that work with them
• Utilizing Web Parts to present different data and applications on the same page
• Customizing SharePoint pages or navigation with ASP.NET
• Packaging and deploying solutions, and customizing deployment to your unique requirements

Whether you’re just starting out with SharePoint development, upgrading from earlier versions, or building on experience

with ASP.NET, this book will help you solve real problems and get real results—fast!

Are you are a designer, producer or programmer struggling with the pressures of multimedia project management? Are you a client commissioning a web site or CD-ROM and don't know what that entails? Is your project fast spiralling out of control while whole areas of the business remain a mystery? Then this second edition of Managing Multimedia will relieve the pressure, providing more practical advice and insiders' tips to help you deliver a high-quality project in time and within budget. New to this Edition: NEW thoroughly updated to reflect trend towards on-line project development NEW coverage of marketing and distribution concepts NEW identifies future trends and directions The accompanying CD-ROM adds colour, sound and movement to complement aspects of the text and is designed in cross-platform HTML for easy customisation.

Accelerate your productivity with Visual Basic® .NET—and quickly create powerful Win32® applications and high-performance, scalable applications for the Web—with this indispensable tutorial and reference. Building on the success of the author’s popular programming book for Visual Basic 6.0, this new book teaches you the best practices for porting and reusing existing Visual Basic code in the .NET Framework as well as for exploiting the language’s advanced new object-oriented capabilities. It covers the common language runtime (CLR), multithreaded programs, Windows® Forms applications, GDI+ graphic programming, Windows services, ADO.NET classes for database programs, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Web Services. It includes advanced optimization techniques and tips for leveraging the power of the Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET environment.

Topics covered include:

• Getting started with Visual Basic .NET
• Modules, variables, and error handling
• Object-oriented features, including inheritance
• Delegates and attributes
• Arrays, lists, and collections
• Files, directories, and streams
• Object serialization
• Regular expressions
• Threading
• Assemblies and AppDomains
• Reflection
• Windows Forms applications and GDI+
• Windows Forms custom control creation
• Windows services
• ADO.NET
• XML
• ASP.NET Web Forms applications
• User controls and custom controls
• XML Web services

CD+DVD INSIDE!

CD-ROM features:

• A fully searchable electronic copy of PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0
• Sample applications written in Visual Basic .NET

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to booktech@oreilly.com.

As students embrace new Web 2.0 technologies like MySpace, YouTube, and RSS feeds, libraries also need to take charge. Based on actual work-practice studies of students and faculty -- original research conducted at the University of Rochester -- this visionary guide maps potentially vibrant futures for academic libraries.
Academic librarians in public services, technology and administration now have the tools to better understand the integral role of technology in the social and academic lives of undergraduates (the net generation). Use these research results, cogent analysis, and clear explanations to
# Understand hot technologies, how students use them, and how libraries can too
# Leverage new Web 2.0 technologies to stay ahead of the curve and include innovations in your service mix
# Transform your library s web site with ideas inspired by gaming
# Provide value-added services to students by communicating in their preferred modes

Any ASP.NET developer who needs a sophisticated control solution may look to Telerik to supply them a fast solution if they understand how to use and integrate Telerik into their own projects. The Telerik suite of controls has been widely adopted by the .NET development community, and Telerik controls appear in tens of thousands of solutions across all industries, with 300,000 registered Telerik users. This book supports the ASP.NET and Silverlight professional developer community by opening up Telerik solutions.