M!cr0$0ft® .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise
304 pages | Microsoft Press (October 15, 2008) | 073562609X | CHM | 2 Mb
Make the right architectural decisions up front and improve the quality and reliability of your results. Led by two enterprise programming experts, you ll learn how to apply the patterns and techniques that help control project complexity and make systems easier to build, support, and upgrade right from the start. Get pragmatic architectural guidance on how to: Build testability, maintainability, and security into your system early in the design Expose business logic through a service-oriented interface Choose the best (more…)

Introducing .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 | ISO | 8 MB

SkillSoft provides the most comprehensive and current content offering in the e-learning industry, effectively covering the full range of enterprise needs. One major foundation for effective corporate learning development is the ready availability of high-quality learning content. SkillSoft content resources are the building blocks of effective learning (more…)

ASP.NET 3.5 Enterprise Application Development with Visual Studio 2008: Problem Design Solution

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Aimed at enterprise developers who use Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server to deliver business applications, this book focuses on implementing patterns that can be used for real-world solutions.

Each chapter establishes a problem, examines which solution will provide the best results, and then demonstrates how to go about executing that solution. (more…)

ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking
Packt Publishing | December 11, 2008 | ISBN: 1847194788 | 580 pages | PDF | 7 Mb

Social Networking is all about developing connections or ties between friends and associates. While people have always networked with one another the Internet has allowed us to network with people all over the world easily. Any interest or cause can support its own social network, where fans and followers can meet, chat, and share their views. But building a social networking site from scratch involves some complex logic, and some serious coding.

This book shows how to build a scalable, enterprise-ready social network using (more…)

Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C# and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces for you .NET programmers! You will become equipped to design state-of-the-art Windows interfaces and program graphics, and learn how to create your own controls.

As a developer, you must know more than just how to add a control to a window. You (more…)

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Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly–without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, “Building Scalable Web Sites” offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use. Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new (more…)

The primary goal of .NET Compact Framework is to bring the familiar experience of developing .NET applications for the desktop to the device world.

Of the approximately six million Microsoft desktop developers in the world, it is estimated that perhaps two hundred thousand will turn their attention to the device world using the enabling technology of the .NET Compact Framework.To facilitate the goal of showing readers how to develop applications for the .NET Compact Framework, the book contains in-depth treatment in the following topic areas: Windows Forms and Threading, Network Programming, ADO.NET Dataset, XML Serialization, SQL CE, Web Services, and performance management. Each concept is accompanied with a sample application that illustrates its implementation on the (more…)

Join the leagues of thousands of programmers and learn C++ from some of the best. The fifth edition of the best seller Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, written by Jesse Liberty, a well-known C++ and C# programming manual author and Bradley L. Jones, manager for a number of high profiler developer websites, has been updated to the new ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. This is an excellent hands-on guide for the beginning programmer. Packed with examples of syntax and detailed analysis of code, fundamentals such as managing I/O, loops, arrays and creating C++ applications are all (more…)