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ASP.NET Web API: Build RESTful web applications and services on the .NET framework

 * Includes a complete QuickBasic compiler with source code. We cannot overstress that this is a huge marketing hook. Virtually every experienced programmer today started out with some version of Basic or QuickBasic and has at some point in their career wondered how it worked. The sheer nostalgia alone will generate sales. The idea of having QuickBasic for them to play with (or let their kids play with) will generate sales.

* One of a kind book – nothing else comes close to this book.

* Demystifies compiler technology for ordinary programmers – this is a subject usually covered by academic books in a manner too advanced for most developers. This book is pitched at a level accessible to all but beginners.

* Teaches skills used in many other types of programming from creation of macro/scripting languages to file parsing.

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling guide to Microsoft’s unified platform for developing modern, service-oriented applications on Windows. Hailed as the definitive treatment of WCF, this guide provides unique insight, rather than documentation, to help you learn the topics and skills you need for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications.

Authors Juval Löwy—one of the world’s top .NET experts—and Michael Montgomery have revised this edition to include the productivity-enhancing features of .NET Framework 4.6, along with the latest WCF ideas and techniques. By teaching you the why and the how of WCF programming, this book will help you master WCF and make you a better software engineer.

• Learn WCF’s architecture and essential building blocks, including key concepts such as reliability and transport sessions
• Use built-in features such as service contracts, instance and…

An outstanding author team presents the ultimate Wrox guide to ASP.NET MVC 4

Microsoft insiders join giants of the software development community to offer this in-depth guide to ASP.NET MVC, an essential web development technology. Experienced .NET and ASP.NET developers will find all the important information they need to build dynamic, data-driven websites with ASP.NET and the newest release of Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technology. Featuring step-by-step guidance and lots of code samples, this guide gets you started and moves all the way to advanced topics, using plenty of examples.

• Designed to give experienced .NET and ASP.NET programmers everything needed to work with the newest version of MVC technology
• Expert author team includes Microsoft ASP.NET MVC insiders as well as leaders of the programming community
• Covers controllers, views, models, forms and HTML helpers, data annotation and validation, membership, authorization,…

With this book, you will learn how to create engaging and interactive web applications using the latest version of the world's most popular web development platform: ASP.NET with AJAX, built on the productivity-enhancing features of Visual Studio 2008.

All you need to get started is a basic knowledge of HTML and a desire to produce professional quality websites.

Learning ASP.NET 3.5 introduces new skills in each new chapter and offers fully annotated and fully functional examples that you can put to work immediately. Each chapter adds detailed summaries, practice questions to ensure comprehension, and exercises so you can apply what you've learned to new situations.

Written by the bestselling author team of Jesse Liberty, Dan Hurwitz, and Brian MacDonald, Learning ASP.NET 3.5 offers complete, up-to-date coverage of ASP.NET 3.5 and AJAX. The book includes:

• Chapters that are designed as a series of tutorials on different aspects of web…

As software complexity increases, proper build practices become ever more important. This essential reference drills inside MSBuild—and shows how to maximize your control over the build and deployment process. Learn how to customize and extend build processes with MSBuild—and scale them to the team, product, or enterprise level with Team Foundation Build.

Discover how to:

• Create and modify MSBuild files—outside the Visual Studio IDE
• Use XML-based syntax to declare dynamic properties and items
• Apply built-in tasks or write your own
• Customize the build process—adding code generation, unit testing, or code analysis
  
  
• Use batching and incremental builds to reduce build times
• Invoke external tools in scripts and create reusable files
• Start and stop services
• Set assembly versions and extend the clean process
• Configure, customize, and extend Team…

Build a software program—such as your own Web browser or weather-reporting application—without any programming experience! Featuring learn-by-doing projects and plenty of visual examples, this hands-on book is your quick start to creating applications for Microsoft Windows.

Have fun as you discover how to:

• Design a rich user interface with easy-to-use tools
• “Drag and drop” text boxes, buttons, and other controls into your application
• Add database and reporting capabilities
• Exploit features that reduce the amount of code you write
• Find and fix any bugs
• Roll-out and share your application

CD Includes:

• Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

MSBuild is more than just a list of source files; it is a declarative programming language, and with the new features in the .Net 4.0 engine, a rather expressive language to boot.

This book explores the Microsoft Build Engine used by C#, VB.Net, F# and C++ projects--the 4.0 version shipped with Visual Studio 2010--in depth and in a very practical way, full of examples not covered in the reference material (or in the other book on MSBuild).

Inside you'll find:

• How to unify all your projects
• How to add help to your build
• How to simulate loops and data joins
• How to use inline C# code in project files
• How to enhance logging

...and over 90 additional tips and tricks, and including some extensive walkthroughs of more advanced topics, like dealing with huge projects and rolling your own tool integrations right in the IDE. You can further explore the content with code samples on the Web.

So if you've ever found

Get started and learn a step-by-step approach to application development using Microsoft Azure. Select the right services to solve the problem at hand in a cost-effective manner and explore the potential different services and how they can help in building enterprise applications. Azure has an ample amount of resources and tutorials, but most of them focus on specific services and explain those services on their own and in a given context. Practical Azure Application Development focuses on building complete solutions on Azure using different services. This book gives you the holistic approach to Azure as a solutions development platform. This book:

• Covers Azure as a solution development platform for building applications
  
• Provides real-world examples to understand why and when an Azure service is required
  
• Discusses how Azure helps to achieve continuous improvement and expansion of an application
  
• Provides application development…

ASP.NET allows Web Developers to create dynamic, interactive Websites very efficiently thanks to multiple built-in controls and features built into the ASP.NET language.

ASP.NET 3.5 is a great leap forward since its first incarnation. In addition to a massively improved performance, it also provides much more to aid developers' productivity, including better AJAX integration and new ListView and DataPager controls. The third edition of this book reflects all these changes, as well as Visual Studio 2008.

Readers liked the original books for their comprehensive coverage, liberal code samples, and the practicality of developing an entire intranet application using freely available tools and software.