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This core reference provides a one-stop, definitive resource for building robust, Web-enabled software applications for the revolutionary Microsoft .NET development platform. Windows programming authority Jeff Prosise masterfully explains this new programming paradigm as he introduces readers to the .NET Framework and to the new programming models that it embodies: Windows Forms, Web Forms, and Web services. The book includes more than 75 complete sample programs written in C#. The samples are designed to help readers resolve .NET development questions and to complement the book's carefully explained introduction to .NET programming. All the sample programs, as well as an electronic version of the book, are included on the companion CD-ROM.

Microsoft Silverlight allows you to create rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers. With Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, you’ll learn to use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology in conjunction with ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas). You will ultimately incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that render Silverlight content. But you’ll also get the basics of Silverlight, too, making this book a must–read for any web developer curious about Silverlight.

Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed assumes a deep knowledge of ASP.NET, but no knowledge of Silverlight.

Das Werk bietet aktuelle Diskurse der Medienkunst im internationalen Kontext und ist gleichzeitig das Buch zur Onlineplattform www.medienkunstnetz.de. Thematische Schwerpunkte lokalisieren die Schnittstellen zwischen den Medien und Künsten. Essays und Texte von Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels, Steve Dietz, Rudolf Frieling, Susanne Holschbach, Verena Kuni, Gregor Stemmrich und Yvonne Volkart als vertiefende Ergänzung zu Band 1: Medienkunst im Überblick. Beide Bände werden online durch multimediale und audiovisuelle Werkdarstellungen ergänzt. Themenschwerpunkte u. a.: Essays zu Bild-Ton-Relationen, Cyborg Bodies, Foto/Byte, Generative Tools, Mapping und Text, Public Sphere_s.

VB.net bietet eine komfortable Plattform zur modernen objektorientierten Anwendungsentwicklung, und mittels DirectX steht dem VB-Programmierer die Welt der multimedialen Highspeed-Technologie zur Verfügung.

Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine fundierte Einführung in die Programmierung unter DirectX. Die Darstellung dieser Technologie geht aber weit über die elementaren Grundlagen hinaus.

Spezielle Effekte zur Programmierung von Computer-Spielen wie Explosionen, Lichteffekte und Mesh-Animationen werden im Detail vorgestellt. Ferner gehören zu einer vollständigen Multimedia-Anwendung auch Komponenten wie DirectSound, DirectAudioVideo, DirectInput oder DirectPlay, die hier fundiert abgehandelt werden.

Mit Return from Orion wird schließlich das Design und die Implementierung eines kompletten Computer-Spiels vorgestellt. Hier erfährt der Leser viele Einsteiger-Tipps zum Design von Spielen und zur Performance-Optimierung sowie zu Spielfiguren und deren Künstlicher Intelligenz.

Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX: From Novice to Professional aims to give you the skills you need to start building web applications with Microsoft’s next–generation technology as quickly as possible. Whether you’re interested in ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, or the technologies that support them (WPF, WCF, WF, etc.), this book is the starting point that you need.

It adopts a “zero to hero” approach that concentrates on achieving practical results you can use in real projects rather than presenting a deep academic treatment that can’t be immediately applied.

The aim is to give you, the reader, the knowledge you need to achieve the results you want with the minimum of fuss. When you’ve read this book, you’ll have a solid understand of all the techniques that are available, when to use them, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

What you’ll learn

• Create next–generation web applications quickly and easily!
• Manipulate data, display information, and communicate with other services using the latest ASP.NET techniques and best practices.
• Discover how the .NET 3.0 extensions (WPF, WCF, and WF) can make your web applications faster, more efficient, and easier to code than ever.
• Understand how ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight can be integrated into your ASP.NET websites in order to provide a cutting–edge user interface for your applications and the implications that such interfaces can have.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone with an interest in using Microsoft’s latest web development technologies.

A basic familiarity with the .NET platform is useful, but anyone with an understanding of a web development language will benefit from the book, as all the key topics are presented from first principals.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Visual Basic .NET is much more than an update of VB 6: It's now a fully object-oriented language that takes advantage of Microsoft's new, feature-rich .NET framework. Mastering Visual Basic .NET is a comprehensive treatment of the language and the framework, from the beginning steps to advanced application development. You'll find detailed tutorials combined with practical, real-world projects and a vast amount of reference material to get you up and running with VB .NET in no time. To shorten the learning curve for experienced VB 6 programmers, this book contains dozens of special notes describing the differences between the old and the new ways of doing things. Mastering Visual Basic .NET thoroughly covers the development environment, language elements, object-oriented programming, and the .NET framework, along with such advanced topics as database programming and web programming. It's everything you need to become a VB .NET expert.

Crystal Reports is one of the world's leading software packages for creating feature-rich reports, and now it is fully integrated with Visual Studio .NET. With this book, you'll see how to produce elegant and effective reports for Windows and the Web.

Here is the network specialist's complete guide to planning and deploying multimedia on the Internet, Intranets, and any networked environment. The title covers everything LAN and WAN professionals need to know to prepare for--and deploy--networked multimedia.

"This book is like a good tour guide.It doesn't just describe the major attractions; you share in the history, spirit, language, and culture of the place."
--Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University
Since its birth in 1996, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has grown up. As a richer, much more robust technology, SIP today is fully capable of supporting the communication systems that power our twenty-first century work and life.
This second edition handbook has been revamped to cover the newest standards, services, and products. You'll find the latest on SIP usage beyond VoIP, including Presence, instant messaging (IM), mobility, and emergency services, as well as peer-to-peer SIP applications, quality-of-service, and security issues--everything you need to build and deploy today's SIP services.
This book will help you
* Work with SIP in Presence and event-based communications
* Handle SIP-based application-level mobility issues
* Develop applications to facilitate communications access for users with disabilities
* Set up Internet-based emergency services
* Explore how peer-to-peer SIP systems may change VoIP
* Understand the critical importance of Internet transparency
* Identify relevant standards and specifications
* Handle potential quality-of-service and security problems