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Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications.

“Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action” focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice.

Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.

With “Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action” in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.

What you will learn from this book

• Get up and running with coverage of LOB development challenges like building forms, navigation, and service and database access Download Now »

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Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback – features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. However, Silverlight is a great Line-Of-Business platform and is increasingly being used to build data-driven business applications. This book will enable .NET developers to get their finger on the pulse of data-driven business applications in Silverlight.

Managing Data and Media in Silverlight 4: A mashup of chapters from Packt’s bestselling Silverlight focuses on showing .NET developers how to interact with, and handle multiple sources of data in Silverlight business applications, and how to solve particular data problems following a practical hands-on approach, using real-world examples. This book is a collections of media and data based chapters from Packt’s best selling Silverlight books:
1. Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook
2. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide
3. Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook
4. Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration
5. Microsoft Silverlight 4: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards
6. 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide

The book starts with discussion on layouts and content organization Download Now »

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Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-561—and on the job. 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. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

• Connect to data sources; query and retrieve data
• Manage data integrity and transactions
• Use LINQ to query data across types, including XML
• Work with DataSets and in-memory stores
• Synchronize data—including smart-caching strategies
• Generate an EDM using the Entity Framework
• Use ADO.NET Data Services for Internet applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Creating Database Connections
Chapter 2. Selecting and Querying Data
Chapter 3. DataSets
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Ace your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-503—and on the job. 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. This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to:

• Define and implement service contracts
• Configure client and service endpoints across transport protocols
• Customize service behavior; host and expose services
• Add instrumentation to services, including end-to-end tracing
• Implement transport, message, and user level security
• Consume services through proxies and agents
• Manage the service life cycle—instances, sessions, transactions, concurrency

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Contracts
Chapter 2. Exposing the Services
Chapter 3. Deploying Services
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Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-502, the required exam for the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5—Windows Presentation Foundation.

This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can apply to the job.

Focusing on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), this official study guide covers creating, configuring, and deploying WPF applications; integrating Windows Forms controls; adding multimedia content; using triggers and animation; binding to data sources; and configuring security settings.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises. Then assess yourself using 300+ practice questions on the CD, featuring multiple, customizable testing options. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an evaluation version of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 software and an exam discount voucher Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Programming C# 5.0, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

With its support for dynamic programming, C# 5.0 continues to evolve as a versatile language on its own. But when C# is used with .NET Framework 4.5, the combination is incredibly powerful. This bestselling tutorial shows you how to build web, desktop, Metro and rich Internet applications using C# 5.0 with .NET’s database capabilities, UI framework (WPF), extensive communication services (WCF), and more.

In this seventh edition, .NET experts Ian Griffiths and Jesse Liberty cover the latest enhancements to C#, as well as the fundamentals of both the language and the framework. You’ll learn concurrent and asynchronous programming with C# 5.0 and how to use .NET tools such as the Entity Framework for easier data access.

• Learn C# fundamentals such as variables, flow control, loops, and methods
• Build complex programs with object-oriented and functional programming techniques
• Process large collections of data with the native query features in LINQ
• Learn all about asynchrony new to C# 5.0

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