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Your hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning Visual Basic® 2010.
Teach yourself the essential tools and techniques for Visual Basic® 2010-one step at a time. No matter what your skill level, you'll find the practical guidance and examples you need to start building professional applications for Windows® and the Web.
Discover how to:

• Work in the Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Master essential techniques-from managing data and variables to using inheritance and dialog boxes
• Create professional-looking UIs; add visual effects and print support
• Build compelling Web features with the Visual Web Developer tool
• Use Microsoft® ADO.NET and advanced data presentation controls
• Debug your programs and handle run-time errors
• Use new features, such as Query Builder, and Microsoft® .NET Framework

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Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536—and on the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you’ll 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.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

• Develop applications that use system types and collections
• Validate input, reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions
• Create services and multi-threaded applications
• Implement code-access security and role-based security
• Implement serialization to read and write complex objects
• Leverage legacy code using interoperability
• Monitor and troubleshoot applications
• Create applications for a global audience

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.

Your kit includes:

• 15% exam discount from Microsoft. Offer expires 12/31/13.
• Official self-paced study guide.
• Practice tests with multiple, customizable testing options and a learning plan based on your results.
• 300+ practice and review questions.
• Code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# on CD.
• Case scenarios, exercises, and best practices.
• 90-day evaluation of Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008.
• Fully searchable eBook of this guide.

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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.

If you’re new to C# programming, this book is the ideal way to get started. Respected author Adam Freeman guides you through the C# language by carefully building up your knowledge from fundamental concepts to advanced features.
The book gradually builds up your knowledge, using the concepts you have already grasped to support those that come next. You will explore all the core areas of the C# language and the .NET Framework on which it runs. Particular attention is paid to the creation of Web and Windows applications and data access—danger zones where novice programmers often go awry in their early coding attempts.
Introducing Visual C# 2010 is a comprehensive primer. Even if you have no previous programming experience, you can have confidence in the fact that you'll be able to build well constructed web and Windows applications of your own once you have finished reading this book.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the fundamentals of the C# language’s syntax and grammar and use it to create Web and Windows applications.

• What object oriented programming is and how it is used in the .NET 4 Framework to save you time and increase the language’s flexibility. 

• Connect to a wide range of data sources and incorporate their information into your dynamic applications.
• Understand the key time and effort saving features of C# such as generics, lambda expressions, and delegates. 

• Discover the huge array of supporting technologies that .NET 4 provides such as the Windows Presentation Foundation, LINQ, Parallel Programming, ASP.NET, Silverlight and Web Services.

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for anyone who is interested in learning about Microsoft's Visual C# 2010 language. Whether you have no previous coding experience or are bringing some existing skills with you from another programming language, this book will teach you everything you need to know to confidently create your own C# programs.

Your expert guide to designing and building dynamic user interfaces

Sharpen your application design and development skills using XAML—the declarative markup language used in Microsoft® Silverlight® and Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). Led by two XAML experts, you’ll learn practical ways to build rich, interactive user interfaces with data integration capabilities and support for multimedia, graphics, and animation. This hands-on guide is ideal for Microsoft .NET developers and web designers alike.

Discover how to:

• Control UI behavior and implement business logic with code-behind solutions
• Manage UI element positioning with the XAML layout system
• Use templates to customize UI elements—without affecting their functionality
• Apply different types of property and event systems in WPF and Silverlight
• Bind various kinds of data to your UI, and display them in the format you want
• Implement 2D and 3D vector graphics and animations
• Reuse control styles and properties to maintain consistency throughout your application

Silverlight 4 in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial that guides the reader from creating "Hello World" to coding production-quality, data-driven rich internet applications with graphics, audio, and video content. Written for a developer who already knows how to code in C#, this fluff-free book covers the basics quickly and dives into the heart of Silverlight development using XAML (a markup language for creating user interface elements) and Visual Studio 2010. You'll learn not only how to accomplish tasks, but how the underlying runtime works.
In addition to the fundamentals, the book covers the new features in Silverlight like pixel shaders, webcam and microphone, and raw media, as well as WCF RIA Services and patterns like MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). It explains developing offline and "out-of-browser" applications, managing video and audio, handling validation, navigation and deep-linking, and how each Silverlight feature fits into the overall Silverlight ecosystem.
Table of Contents

1. Introducing Silverlight
2. Core XAML
3. The application model and the plug-in
4. Integrating with the browser
5. Integrating with the desktop
6. Rendering, layout, and transforming
7. Panels
8. Human input
9. Text
10. Controls and UserControls
11. Binding
12. Data controls: DataGrid and DataForm
13. Input validation
14. Networking and communications
15. Navigation and dialogs
16. Structuring and testing with the MVVM/ViewModel pattern
17. WCF RIA Services
18. Graphics and effects
19. Printing
20. Displaying and capturing media (including webcam/mic)
21. Working with bitmap images
22. Animation and behaviors
23. Resoures, styles, and control templates
24. Creating panels and controls
25. The install experience and preloaders

Silverlight 4 is Microsoft's cross-browser technology for creating rich user experiences on the Web. Like its predecessor, Silverlight 3, it rides atop the .NET framework for maximum ease of use and coding efficiency. The new technology carries forward much of the work that has been done before and augments it in many important respects, including support for H.264 video, major improvements to the graphics engine (including true 3D rendering), and much richer data-binding options for interfacing with other applications.

Pro Silverlight 4 in C# is an invaluable reference for professional developers wanting to discover the features of Silverlight 4. Author Matthew MacDonald's expert advice guides you through creating rich media applications using Silverlight in the environment you're most productive in—no matter what the target platform.

As you learn about the features that put Silverlight in direct competition with Adobe Flash, such as rich support for 2D and 3D drawing, animations, and media playback, you'll experience the plumbing of .NET and the design model of WPF through Silverlight—all of the same .NET technology that developers use to design next-generation Windows applications. Matthew MacDonald provides a comprehensive tutorial written from professional developer to professional developer, complete with full-color graphics and screenshots.

What you’ll learn

• Develop rich media applications using Silverlight across browsers and platforms.
• Create a project, set up a layout, and use controls.
• Handle both 2D and 3D drawing, animation, and media playback through Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
• Integrate web services support.
• Use Silverlight in conjunction with ASP.NET and its interactions with HTML.

Who this book is for

.NET developers encountering Silverlight for the first time. No prior knowledge of WPF or ASP.NET is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Silverlight
2. XAML
3. Layout
4. Dependency Properties and Routed Events
5. Elements
6. The Application Model
7. Navigation
8. Shapes and Geometries
9. Brushes, Transforms, and Bitmaps
10. Animation
11. Sound, Video, and Deep Zoom
12. Styles and Behaviors
13. Templates and Custom Controls
14. Browser Integration
15. ASP.NET Web Services
16. Data Binding
17. Data Controls
18. File Access
19. Multithreading
20. Networking
21. Out-of-Browser Applications

Create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Microsoft Silverlight 5 book and eBook

Overview

• With this book and e-book, learn how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight

• Move from scenarios to requirements by applying user-centered design best practices

• Discover the tips, tricks and hands on experience to create, customize and design

rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight from a distinguished team of User Experience and Development authors

In Detail

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Silverlight enables you to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards that highlight Key Performance Indicators for your business.

Microsoft Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.

This book provides real world user experience design topics and starts by providing an overview of the Silverlight Platform and the clear advantages it provides for building dashboards. The book then dives into topics such as Silverlight design and development tools, building a basic Dashboard, Dashboard types and user needs, Designing for Insight, Styling, Building an End to End Dashboard Solution and Data Access Strategies amongst others.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to create custom user controls, reference resources, and edit basic control templates

• Build an end-to-end dashboard solution

• Learn how to use Microsoft Expression Blend to style a dashboard

• Explore the different types of dashboards, and learn how to choose the most appropriate dashboard type based on your project goals

• Discover and represent user needs and scenarios as a basis for dashboard design, using user experience best practices

• Understand how to determine between the different data access strategies (SOAP, REST, and OData)

• Host and use Silverlight WebParts and the SharePoint Client Object Model

Approach

This book is a concise and practical tutorial that shows you how to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight.

Who this book is for

If you are a .Net developer who wants to create, customize and design rich enterprise dashboards with Silverlight, then this book is for you. You should have an intermediate understanding of .Net development, with a working knowledge of Microsoft Silverlight.

This book provides a complete guide to implementing Telerik’s range of ASP.NET and Silverlight controls. Telerik controls are invaluable for ASP.NET and Silverlight developers because they provide a vast array of rich controls targeted for the presentation layer of web applications. Telerik offers you solutions for the reports, grids, charts, and text-editing controls that you need but don’t want to build from scratch yourself—the options are endless for increasing the functionality of any of your web solutions.

What you’ll learn

• Understand how to integrate the standard Telerik controls into any ASP.NET or Silverlight solution to increase productivity and usability.
• Incorporate the Telerik extensions for ASP.NET MVC.
• Learn to implement Telerik Open Access and ORM for all your data access requirements.
• Understand the new functionality provided by the WebAii Testing Framework.
• Work with the full API to master using the entire suite of controls.

Who this book is for

This book is aimed at .NET developers working with ASP.NET and Silverlight who want to take advantage of the prewritten controls that Telerik provides when developing their software. No prior knowledge of Telerik controls is required, but a working knowledge of ASP.NET and Silverlight is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing ASP.NET and Telerik
2. Getting Started With Telerik RadControls
3. Input RadControls
4. Navigation RadControls
5. Date, Time, and Scheduling RadControls
6. Data RadControls, Part 1
7. Data RadControls, Part
8. Layout RadControls
9. Chart and Image RadControls
10. Additional RadControls
11. RadAjax
12. Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
13. RadControls for Silverlight
14. Introducing Telerik Reporting
15. Telerik OpenAccess ORM

• Part of the new .NET 3.0 extensions to .NET 2.0, WCF provides a unified platform for building and running connected systems and will be used by almost every .NET or SQL Server developer
• Targeted to experienced developers who want to build service-oriented and transactional applications on the Microsoft platform that offer reliable and secure transactional messaging
• Addresses the WCF technologies as well as the next generation of configuring and deploying network-distributed services
• Key topics discussed include binding, contracts, clients, services, security, deployment, management, and hosting

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

• Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding
• Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details
• Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports
• Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud
• Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation
• Protect your applications with authentication and authorization
• Fine tune your code for scalability and performance
• Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud
• Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface
• Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio
• Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle
• Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug

Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: LightSwitch

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

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