Programming .NET 3.5

Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, and More

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Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, and More

By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: July 2008

Pages: 480

.NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies. In Programming .NET 3.5, bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks.

While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a "Grand Tour" of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications. Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this hands-on guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy.

The concepts and technologies that this book covers include:

XAML -- Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- a new presentation framework and graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp
Ajax
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols
Workflow Foundation (WF) -- framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows
CardSpace -- framework for managing the identities of your users

You'll learn how to use each of the four frameworks alone and in concert to build a series of meaningful example applications. Examples are written in C#, and all of the source code will be available for download at both the O'Reilly and the authors' site, which offers access to a free support forum.

Between them, authors Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz have nearly forty years of experience in delivering commercial applications for companies such as Citibank, Apple, AT&T, NeXt, PBS, Ziff Davis, and dozens of smaller organizations. Their combined experience is valuable for telling the story of .NET 3.5 and how it will shorten the development life cycle for applications developers, and enhance your productivity.

Presentation Options
1. Chapter 1 .NET 3.5: A Better Framework for Building MVC, N-Tier, and SOA Applications
  1. Integration Versus Silos
  2. What? All That in One Book?
2. Chapter 2 Introducing XAML: A Declarative Way to Create Windows UIs
  1. XAML 101
  2. Simple XAML Done Simply
  3. Over Here…No, Wait, I Meant Over There!
  4. It's Alive! (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animation)
3. Chapter 3 Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation: A Richer Desktop UI Experience
  1. Starting Simple: Panels
  2. Nesting
  3. Resources
  4. Transformations
  5. Animation
  6. Data Binding
4. Chapter 4 Applying WPF: Building a Biz App
  1. Breaking the Application into Pieces
  2. Adorners
  3. Business Classes
  4. Page 1—Adding Items to the Shopping Cart
  5. Page 2—Validating the Credit Card
5. Chapter 5 Introducing AJAX: Moving Desktop UIs to the Web
  1. Web Applications Just Got a Whole Lot Faster
  2. Getting Started
  3. Creating a "Word Wheel" with AJAX
  4. ScriptManager
  5. What's Next?
6. Chapter 6 Applying AJAX: ListMania
  1. Creating the To-Do List Manager
  2. Personalizing the To-Do List
7. Chapter 7 Introducing Silverlight: A Richer Web UI Platform
  1. Silverlight in One Chapter
  2. The Breadth of Silverlight
  3. Diving Deep: Building an Application
  4. Controls
  5. Events and Event Handlers
  6. Creating Controls Dynamically
  7. Data Binding
  8. Styling Controls
Interlude on Design Patterns
1. Chapter 8 Implementing Design Patterns with .NET 3.5
  1. .NET 3.5 Fosters Good Design
  2. The N-Tier Pattern
  3. The MVC Pattern
  4. The Observer Pattern/Publish and Subscribe
  5. The Factory Method Pattern
  6. The Chain-of-Command Pattern
  7. The Singleton Pattern
The Business Layer
1. Chapter 9 Understanding LINQ: Queries As First-Class Language Constructs
  1. Defining and Executing a LINQ Query
  2. Extension Methods
  3. Adding the AdventureWorksLT Database
  4. LINQ to SQL Fundamentals
  5. Using the Visual Studio LINQ to SQL Designer
  6. Retrieving Data
  7. LINQ to XML
2. Chapter 10 Introducing Windows Communication Foundation: Accessible Service-Oriented Architecture
  1. Defining a Service More Precisely
  2. Implementing Web Services
  3. UDDI: Who Is Out There, and What Can They Do for Me?
  4. How It All Works
  5. WCF's SOA Implementation
  6. Putting It All Together
3. Chapter 11 Applying WCF: YahooQuotes
  1. Creating and Launching a Web Service
  2. Consuming the Web Service
4. Chapter 12 Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation
  1. Conventional (Pre-WF) Flow Control
  2. Using Windows Workflow
  3. Understanding the WF Runtime
  4. Workflow Services
5. Chapter 13 Applying WF: Building a State Machine
  1. Windows Workflow and State Machines
  2. Building an Incident Support State Machine
6. Chapter 14 Using and Applying CardSpace: A New Scheme for Establishing Identity
  1. About Windows CardSpace
  2. Creating a CardSpace Identity
  3. Adding CardSpace Support to Your Application
  4. Summary

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Title:

Programming .NET 3.5

By:

Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media

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Print:

July 2008

Ebook:

February 2009

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480

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Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Silverlight Development Division where his business card reads "Silverlight Geek," and he is responsible for fostering a Silverlight Developer community, primarily through Silverlight.net.

Jesse is the author of numerous books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming Silverlight 2 and the perennial best-seller Programming C# 3.0. Jesse has two decades experience as a developer, author and consultant and has been a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS/Learning Link; and Vice President at Citibank. He provides full support for his writing, and access to his blogs, at JesseLiberty.com.

View Jesse Liberty's full profile page.
Alex Horovitz

Alex Horovitz is Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture & Standards at K12, Inc. where he develops enterprise applications leveraging the Model-View-Controller design pattern and re-usable Frameworks. During the 1990s he worked at both NeXT Computer and later at Apple.

View Alex Horovitz's full profile page.

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The animal on the cover of Programming .NET 3.5 is a giant petrel, a large seabird from the genus Macronectes, which encompasses both the southern, or Antarctic, giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus) and the northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli). While much of the two species' habitat range overlaps and both are restricted to the southern hemisphere, only the southern petrel nests as far south as Antarctica. They are also physically similar; most individuals have gray plumage, though they can range from black and brown, to white in some southern petrels. They have long, pale-orange bills, but northern petrels can be distinguished by their reddish-pink billtips, versus the light-green tip of the southern petrels. Giant petrels are so named due to their impressive size; they can grow up to 34 inches long with wingspans of around 77 inches, and they weigh as much as 11 pounds.

Although they are sometimes mistaken for albatrosses, giant petrels-unlike thealbatross-forage on both sea and land. At sea, they feed on fish, squid, crustaceans,and refuse from ships. On land, they feed primarily on penguin, whale, seal, orseabird carrion, earning them a reputation as the "vultures of the Antarctic." Theyare capable of killing birds as large as the king penguin and can be quite vicious intheir attacks.

Whalers have nicknamed the giant petrel "stinker" due in part to its carrion-feedingtendencies, but also to one particularly nasty talent: it is able to spit, with great precision,a foul-smelling glob of oil and regurgitated food at attackers. Giant petrels arevery susceptible to disturbance during breeding season and will abandon their nestsif threatened, so one theory is that the birds may have developed this spitting abilityas a way to ward off intruders.

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I saw the reviews on this book and looked promising. I ordered the book from an Internet retailler and got it a week ago. I started reading and trying out the examples. To my surprise, the examples/materials are very much outdated. I cannot find any Errata's for the book that provides suggestions and fixes. For example, the code for ASP.NET MVC, which actually tap my fancy and decision for buying the book, was based on an older preview and I get a lot of errors trying the examples even with the beta version of ASP.NET MVC. Check out the examples from pages 235-245 particularly the sections on Controllers and Views. The issue here is that these authors are just writing books as soon as some new technology is still is in the oven and there is no follow-up when the technology is baked. I don't know how this problem can be solved but I hope that the authors and publisher provides on-going erratas so that the content is current. Otherwise, all I have is another useless book because I have to digged through other materials on the internet to just make up the difference. The reason why I buy these technical books is because I expect them to be more accurate and a single point of reference for me to get started with the technology.

8/8/2008

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It's a well presented book, but where is the source code?

By Anonymous

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Comments about oreilly Programming .NET 3.5:

The is a great book. It covers a lot of topics, and is very well written. Most of us where hit by a flood of new .net technologies. I need to get up to speed and this is a good 1st book on 3.5.Like to other review pointed out Where is the d@mn source code! This book is worthless to me otherwise. If it not available that this time at least let us know when it will be! I'm holding my breath.

-Stu

8/7/2008

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It's a well presented book, but where is the source code?

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Comments about oreilly Programming .NET 3.5:

OK, so I wrote a review giving this book a Definitive score. Now halfway through the sample projects they refer to several websites that contain source code, but the code is not there and the samples require files that aren't in the book!

Ouch, it seems the authors were late supplying source code for other books as well.

Because of this I must re-evaluate my scoring. It's Good but not definitive because we can't step through the code.

8/7/2008

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The overview I was looking for

By Tom

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This book provided me the overview of new technologies coming out of Microsoft that was sorely needed. It covers WPF, WCF, WF, AJAX and MS implementations of software patterns in the broad strokes necessary to show how they integrate without getting bogged down in too much detail. Each of these technologies is complex and books often spend too much time describing the api and never get to the larger picture of how they work together. Thanks.

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