Programming .NET 3.5
Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, and More
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: February 2009
Pages: 480
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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.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 .NET 3.5: A Better Framework for Building MVC, N-Tier, and SOA Applications
- Integration Versus Silos
- What? All That in One Book?
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Chapter 2 Introducing XAML: A Declarative Way to Create Windows UIs
- XAML 101
- Simple XAML Done Simply
- Over Here…No, Wait, I Meant Over There!
- It's Alive! (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animation)
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Chapter 3 Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation: A Richer Desktop UI Experience
- Starting Simple: Panels
- Nesting
- Resources
- Transformations
- Animation
- Data Binding
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Chapter 4 Applying WPF: Building a Biz App
- Breaking the Application into Pieces
- Adorners
- Business Classes
- Page 1—Adding Items to the Shopping Cart
- Page 2—Validating the Credit Card
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Chapter 5 Introducing AJAX: Moving Desktop UIs to the Web
- Web Applications Just Got a Whole Lot Faster
- Getting Started
- Creating a "Word Wheel" with AJAX
- ScriptManager
- What's Next?
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Chapter 6 Applying AJAX: ListMania
- Creating the To-Do List Manager
- Personalizing the To-Do List
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Chapter 7 Introducing Silverlight: A Richer Web UI Platform
- Silverlight in One Chapter
- The Breadth of Silverlight
- Diving Deep: Building an Application
- Controls
- Events and Event Handlers
- Creating Controls Dynamically
- Data Binding
- Styling Controls
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Interlude on Design Patterns
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Chapter 8 Implementing Design Patterns with .NET 3.5
- .NET 3.5 Fosters Good Design
- The N-Tier Pattern
- The MVC Pattern
- The Observer Pattern/Publish and Subscribe
- The Factory Method Pattern
- The Chain-of-Command Pattern
- The Singleton Pattern
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The Business Layer
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Chapter 9 Understanding LINQ: Queries As First-Class Language Constructs
- Defining and Executing a LINQ Query
- Extension Methods
- Adding the AdventureWorksLT Database
- LINQ to SQL Fundamentals
- Using the Visual Studio LINQ to SQL Designer
- Retrieving Data
- LINQ to XML
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Chapter 10 Introducing Windows Communication Foundation: Accessible Service-Oriented Architecture
- Defining a Service More Precisely
- Implementing Web Services
- UDDI: Who Is Out There, and What Can They Do for Me?
- How It All Works
- WCF's SOA Implementation
- Putting It All Together
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Chapter 11 Applying WCF: YahooQuotes
- Creating and Launching a Web Service
- Consuming the Web Service
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Chapter 12 Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation
- Conventional (Pre-WF) Flow Control
- Using Windows Workflow
- Understanding the WF Runtime
- Workflow Services
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Chapter 13 Applying WF: Building a State Machine
- Windows Workflow and State Machines
- Building an Incident Support State Machine
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Chapter 14 Using and Applying CardSpace: A New Scheme for Establishing Identity
- About Windows CardSpace
- Creating a CardSpace Identity
- Adding CardSpace Support to Your Application
- Summary
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Appendix Epilogue
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