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MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET (MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit)
Microsoft Corporation
$16.00

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Key Book Benefits: - NEW--Delivers revised and expanded content for developing Web applications with the .Net Framework - NEW--Features enhanced testing tool that generates realistic practice exams and automated scoring and detailed explanations for right and wrong answers - Thoroughly covers the objectives for two MCP Exams--70-306 and 70-316--core requirement on the MCAD/MCSD tracks - Provides side-by-side code examples and labs for both Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET - Includes 60-day evaluation version of Visual Studio .Net Professional Edition on DVD

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MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® .NET, Second Edition (Pro-Certification)
Microsoft Corporation
$9.59

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Get self-paced, from-the-source exam preparation and self-assessment for the skills measured by MCP Exams 70-305 and 70-315—core requirements for MCAD and MCSD certification. Features an enhanced testing tool and more labs and code examples.

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Why dot-net isn't 'dot-not': interoperability and operational stability give Microsoft's platform an edge.(point/counterpoint): An article from: Risk & Insurance
Josh Lee
$5.95

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This digital document is an article from Risk & Insurance, published by Axon Group on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 617 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Why dot-net isn't 'dot-not': interoperability and operational stability give Microsoft's platform an edge.(point/counterpoint)
Author: Josh Lee
Publication: Risk & Insurance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Axon Group
Volume: 14 Issue: 11 Page: 58(1)

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LINQ in Action
Jim Wooley
$25.35

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LLINQ, Language INtegrated Query, is a new extension to the Visual Basic and C# programming languages designed to simplify data queries and database interaction. It addreses O/R mapping issues by making query operations like SQL statements part of the programming language. It also offers built-in support for querying in-memory collections like arrays or lists, XML, DataSets, and relational databases.

LINQ in Action is a fast-paced, comprehensive tutorial for professional developers. This book explores what can be done with LINQ, shows how it works in an application, and addresses the emerging best practices. It presents the general purpose query facilities offered by LINQ in the upcoming C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 languages. A running example introduces basic LINQ concepts. You'll then learn to query unstructured data using LINQ to XML and relational data with LINQ to SQL. Finally, you'll see how to extend LINQ for custom applications.

LINQ in Action will guide you along as you explore this new world of lambda expressions, query operators, and expression trees. As well, you'll explore the new features of C# 3.0, VB.NET 9.0. The book is very practical, anchoring each new idea with running code. Whether you want to use LINQ to query objects, XML documents, or relational databases, you will find all the information you need to get started

But LINQ in Action does not stop at the basic code. This book also shows you how LINQ can be used for advanced processing of data, including coverage of LINQ's extensibility, which allows querying more data sources than those supported by default. All code samples are built on a concrete business case. The running example, LinqBooks, is a personal book cataloging system that shows you how to create LINQ applications with Visual Studio 2008.

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Silverlight 2 Bible
Brad Dayley
$20.72

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Silverlight 2 is a powerful Internet application and Microsoft's solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences including animation, graphics, audio, and video for rich internet applications. The Silverlight 2 Bible, will provide you with a strong foundation in Silverlight whereby you will quickly be able to create and deliver a variety of Silverlight applications.  This book will show you exactly how to build everything from basic Silverlight-enabled web pages with graphics and video, to professional, Silverlight-enhanced ASP.NET applications that link to powerful back-end services. The Silverlight 2 Bible will discuss development tools, such as Visual Studio 2008, as well as design tools such as Expression Blend, Expression Encoder and Deep Zoom Composer, which Microsoft has positioned for designing state of the art UI in Silverlight applications.

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Professional Visual Basic 2008 (Programmer to Programmer)
Kent Sharkey
$33.50

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The 2008 version of Visual Basic is tremendously enhanced and introduces dramatic new concepts, techniques, and features to this popular object-oriented language. Written by an elite author team, this comprehensive resource provides a clear and concise approach to using VB 2008 in the ever-expanding .NET world. This book focuses on using the latest and most powerful tools from the Microsoft arsenal within your Visual Basic solutions. Youll examine everything from the .NET Framework to the best practices for deploying .NET applications to database access and integrating with other technologies.

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IronPython in Action
Christian Muirhead
$29.69

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In 2005, Microsoft quietly announced an initiative to bring dynamic languages to the .NET platform. The starting point for this project was a .NET implementation of Python, dubbed IronPython. After a couple years of incubation, IronPython is ready for real-world use. It blends the simplicity, elegance, and dynamism of Python with the power of the .NET framework.

IronPython in Action offers a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Microsoft's exciting new approach for programming the .NET framework. It approaches IronPython as a first class .NET language, fully integrated with the .NET environment, Visual Studio, and even the open-source Mono implementation. You'll learn how IronPython can be embedded as a ready-made scripting language into C# and VB.NET programs, used for writing full applications or for web development with ASP. Even better, you'll see how IronPython works in Silverlight for client-side web programming.

IronPython opens up exciting new possibilities. Because it's a dynamic language, it permits programming paradigms not easily available in VB and C#. In this book, authors Michael Foord and Christian Muirhead explore the world of functional programming, live introspection, dynamic typing and duck typing , metaprogramming, and more.

IronPython in Action explores these topics with examples, making use of the Python interactive console to explore the .NET framework with live objects. The expert authors provide a complete introduction for programmers to both the Python language and the power of the .NET framework. The book also shows how to extend IronPython with C#, extending C# and VB.NET applications with Python, using IronPython with .NET 3.0 and Powershell, IronPython as a Windows scripting tool, and much more.