Written for experienced web developers, this book overviews the changes to expect in the new release of ADO.NET, and introduces Microsoft's brand-new System.XML namespaces. Topics include the new bulk data copy features, asynchronous command execution, SQL server query notifications, properties and methods for the XPathDocument2 class, the XmlAdapter class, and the Xquery processor class. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

First Look at ADO.NET and System Xml v 2.0

Computers & Technology

Homer, Alex

Sussman, Dave

Fussell, Mark

Networking & Cloud Computing

Addison-Wesley Professional

Alex Homer is managing director of Stonebroom, Ltd., a software-development, consulting, and training organization. He was formerly lead technical author and reviewer for Wrox Press, specializing in Microsoft Web and database technologies Dave Sussman speaks frequently at Microsoft development conferences and has been writing about ASP since its earliest releases. Rob Howard founded Telligent Systems, a solutions company specializing in Microsoft enterprise technologies. As Program Manager at Microsoft, he helped design ASP.NET's Web services support, caching, session state, and other features. His books include A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0 (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook (Sams, 2003).

A First Look at ASP.NET v 2.0

Howard, Rob

Web Development & Design

Addison-Wesley

“A highly readable and comprehensive reference to data access capabilities of the .NET Framework. Suitable for the newcomer and ‘guru’ alike.” —Arpan Desai, program manager, System.Xml, Webdata XML Team, Microsoft Corporation“This book goes beyond the typical API reference and goes in detail into why you would use each new feature, what scenarios they were designed for, and how things work from end to end. Great way of getting started with data access in .NET 2.0.” —Pablo Castro, program manager, ADO.NET Team, Microsoft Corporation“An insightful look at the XML features in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework v. 2.0 by one of the minds behind many of the innovations in the System.Xml namespace. Even though I was one of the Program Managers who worked on version 2.0 of System.Xml, Mark Fussell’s chapters still taught me a few things I didn’t know about working with XML in the .NET Framework. Truly an excellent work.” —Dare Obasanjo, program manager, Communication Services Platform, Microsoft Corporation
ADO.NET 2.0 delivers dramatic improvements in relational data access and XML support, as well as outstanding integration with SQL Server 2005. Now’s the time to get a running start with ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0—The Beta Version, the one book that delivers all the insights, best practices, and sample code you’ll need. Two renowned .NET and XML experts, along with a lead program manager at Microsoft, reveal everything that’s new in ADO.NET and System.Xml—including major changes since 2004’s “Technology Preview.” Using realistic code examples, the authors illuminate improvements to data access and management, the DataSet class, security, schema discovery, and much more. You’ll discover how SQL Server 2005’s in-process CLR hosting will help you build faster, more robust applications—and how to make the most of advances in XML performance, schema support, usability, querying, and serialization. Topics include <ul>
<li>Doing more with less code: asynchronous command execution, promotable transactions, batched update, bulk data copy, and other SqlClient class enhancements </li> <li>Leveraging ADO.NET improvements that work with any database platform, including provider factories and the Database Schema Discovery API</li> <li>Using the enhanced features of the DataSet class to increase flexibility, simplify coding, and improve erformance </li> <li>Integrating with SQL Server 2005, via Multiple Active Result Sets, query notifications, and user-defined types</li> <li>Utilizing SQL Server 2005 as an XML database: using, accessing, and updating the XML data type </li> <li>Mastering System.Xml v. 2.0 classes for reading/writing XML, document editing, validation, transformations, security, and more </li> <li>Discovering new techniques for customizing XML serialization and working with XML document stores</li> <li>Maximizing application and service performance with insider tips and tricks from ADO.NET’s creators</li>
</ul>
Already assessing ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0? Piloting them? Building production applications? Wherever you stand, wherever you’re headed with these technologies, this book will get you there.

ADO.Net and System.Xml.Net v. 2.0: The Beta Version

Sussman, David

Praise for ASP.NET v. 2.0—The Beta Version 
 "This fast-paced book looks like an ideal way to jumpstart your ASP.NET 2.0 experience. It has coverage of all of the new bits and had me tapping away at my keyboard in no time." —Darren Neimke, Microsoft MVP-ASP.NET "The new features in ASP.NET 2.0 will amaze and astound you, and these authors have methodically outlined the features with clear and concise examples. An absolute must for your library!" —Ronda Pederson, consultant "These authors take the pain out of getting up to speed on the many new features in the ASP.NET 2.0 beta." —Ken Cox, Microsoft MVP-ASP.NET and ASP.NET Developer "A clear and concise, yet thorough, introduction to new and improved features that are set to take the Web development community by storm in ASP.NET 2.0. An excellent resource for any ASP.NET developer." —Olga Londer, Microsoft MVP-IIS/CMS and Principal Technologist, QA "ASP.NET 2.0 is not just a minor update. It allows you to create Web applications in an entirely new way. Just reading the chapter on the new membership and security features of ASP.NET 2.0 will make this book worth your while." —Douglas Reilly, MVP-ASP.NET Access Microsystems Inc. "There's a large 'wow' factor to this book, which, coupled with the well-worded text and excellent examples, makes you wish the final release wasn't just out of reach." —Dan Maharry, .NET Developers Journal Praise for A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0 "I would highly recommend A First Look at ASP.NET v. 2.0 to existing ASP.NET developers. The topic is exciting and the authors did a great job of covering the bases in an enjoyable and easy-to-follow format." —Scott Forsyth, Microsoft MVP-ASP/ASP.NET, Director of IT, Orcsweb.com "Those of us lucky enough to attend PDC or have an MSDN universal subscription can access the ASP.NET 2.0 alpha. For the rest of the world with an interest in 'Whidbey,' the next best thing to the actual bits is this book." —Scott Cate, Senior Engineer, myKB.com Corporation "I couldn't wait to get my hands on this new title--not only does it open with Scott Guthrie's foreword, but it includes a chapter on caching by Rob Howard and features the exceptional writing talents of Alex Homer and Dave Sussman." —Rob Chartier, Microsoft MVP-ASP/ASP.NET "The authors have worked closely with the ASP.NET team at Microsoft to make sure that this book is authoritative, accurate, and informative. Anyone using ASP.NET will find a wealth of useful info on the next version." —Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Web Platform and Tools Team, Microsoft In this book, three world-class ASP.NET experts present a start-to-finish, developer-focused preview of Microsoft's latest Web development breakthrough: ASP.NET 2.0. The first book to fully reflect the new ASP.NET 2.0 Beta, ASP.NET v. 2.0—The Beta Version identifies powerful new best practices for ASP.NET development. It will give you a jumpstart in creating new applications, optimizing their performance, extending them to mobile environments, improving their accessibility, and simplifying their deployment and management. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience and unfettered access to Microsoft's ASP.NET development team, the authors cover every significant platform enhancement. Using realistic code examples, they illuminate improvements in data access, user-interface development, portals, personalization, security, and many other areas. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li>Using ASP.NET 2.0's new Visual Web Developer and administration tools </li> <li>Simplifying database integration with "code-free" data binding and new data source controls </li> <li>Using Master Pages to improve control over application look-and-feel </li> <li>Strengthening security with membership providers, security server controls, cookieless forms authentication, and the new Role Manager </li> <li>Simplifying personalization with ASP.NET 2.0 Themes </li> <li>Building fast, flexible portals with newly improved Web Parts and the new Portal Framework </li> <li>Delivering more effective mobile device support—with less complexity </li> <li>Previewing new controls—including FormView, CreateUserControl, and other innovations absent from earlier ASP.NET 2.0 Technology Previews</li> <li>Leveraging major improvements to existing controls </li> <li>Improving accessibility for disabled site visitors and application users</li> </ul>
Currently assessing ASP.NET 2.0? Piloting it? Already building production applications with it? Wherever you stand, wherever you're headed with ASP.NET 2.0, this book will get you there.

Asp.Net V.2.0: The Beta Version (Microsoft .Net Development Series)

“This book is a phenomenal start for someone new to ASP.NET, as well as a complete guide to the new features of version 2.0 for programmers familiar with an earlier version. The beginning chapters detail concepts using a hypothetical company, examining the myriad sorts of requests and situations often requested by clients. The authors deal with these in an eloquent, realistic manner. They have clearly worked in the industry and have faced real-world challenges that programmers encounter daily. The content covers everything from the most basic tasks to the most complex, and is a comprehensive collection of information on ASP.NET 2.0. Every topic is well-referenced for additional information, but contains clear examples that work. The content is technical but the clear writing makes it easy to understand. Difficult concepts are explained in such a way that this book will quickly become your favorite reference for ASP.NET!” —Ronda Pederson, consultant, Microsoft MVP Visual Developer, ASP/ASP.NET “As to be expected from two of today’s leading technical authors, this book is a cracking guide to getting the most from the ASP 2.0 Framework. Detailed chapters, concise yet practical examples, and clear explanation provide the grounding and support necessary to leverage the new features that ASP 2.0 brings to the table—all explained with a logical, no-nonsense approach. This book will be borrowed by every developer you work with, so guard it wisely!” —John Timney, Microsoft MVP, senior Web services consultant, British Telecom “This book will absolutely change the way you view ASP.NET technology. Read it and your existing Web sites will suddenly appear to be underperforming.” —Chris Carpenter, senior software engineer, L3 Communications, Inc. “The authors have worked closely with the ASP.NET team at Microsoft to makesure that this book is authoritative, accurate, and informative. Anyone usingASP.NET will find a wealth of useful information on ASP.NET 2.0.” —Scott Guthrie, general manager, .NET Developer Platform, Microsoft Corporation 
Developers moving to ASP.NET 2.0, the breakthrough Web development environment from Microsoft, will want to learn how to take full advantage of the new features that make this the most productive and powerful Web development environment ever. ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated teaches developers exactly what they need to know to create exciting Web sites and applications quickly and easily using ASP.NET 2.0. Renowned authors, developers, and conference speakers Alex Homer and Dave Sussman have written a concise, detailed exploration of the “must learn” features of ASP.NET 2.0. The book’s many original examples, fully updated for the release version of ASP.NET 2.0, are all downloadable from the authors’ Web site, and many can be run live online. The authors provide detailed coverage of <ul>
<li>Connecting to databases, using data source and data display controls with SQL statements and stored procedures; creating business layers and data layers with custom classes and Typed DataSets; and providing declarative access to business and data layers</li> <li>Techniques for improving the scalability and responsiveness of data-driven sites, including caching techniques for data and ASP.NET pages</li> <li>Binding to XML, transforming XML, updating XML data, and managing XML data stored in SQL Server 2005</li> <li>Building interactive Web forms with a wide variety of ASP.NET controls</li> <li>Understanding and using the core functionality of the Page class and key .NET Framework classes</li> <li>Providing a consistent sitewide look and feel using Master Pages</li> <li>Six ways to provide site navigation, including the new navigation controls</li> <li>Securing sites and implementing membership and roles</li> <li>Using profiles, personalization, and themes in your applications</li> <li>Building user-customizable Web portals with Web Parts</li> <li>Supporting multiple browsers, disabled users, mobile devices, and international users</li> <li>Creating and consuming Web services</li> </ul>
Developers will come away from this book knowing exactly how to build secure, efficient, visually consistent, easy-to-navigate, data-driven Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0.

ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

AddisonWesley Professional

ASP 2005 Insider Solutions is for the developer who is already familiar with ASP.NET, and wants to explore some of the more advanced topics that will help you build better, more efficient, and more attractive Web pages and Web applications. This task-based reference guide has countless tips, insights, and practical suggestions from authors Dave Sussman and Alex Homer. It will help you move beyond the basics as it presents techniques and best practices that separate the pros from the hobbyists.   In fact, many of the examples are designed to illustrate and provide solutions for questions and problems that appear regularly on the ASP.NET forums and newsgroups. Topics include getting more from the DataGrid control, creating reusable content as both user controls and server controls, page templating and cross-page posting, building secure applications, validating user input, relational and XML data handling issues, integrating client-side script, providing great cross-browser support, and much more.

Asp 2005 Insider Solutions

Sams.

Welcome to the era of software reuse! Microsoft Enterprise Library helps accelerate development by providing reusable components and guidance on proven practices. If you build applications that run on the Microsoft .NET Framework, whether they are enterprise-level business applications or even relatively modest Windows® Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or ASP.NET applications, you can benefit from using Enterprise Library. This guide helps you to quickly grasp what Enterprise Library can do for you, presents examples, and makes it easier for you to start experimenting with Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library is made up of a series of application blocks, each aimed at managing specific cross-cutting concerns. 
 The guide will walk you through the most common usage scenarios for each of the functional application blocks, including: 
<ul>
<li>Improving performance by utilizing a local in-memory or isolated storage cache.</li> <li>Calling into your database stored procedures and managing the results exposed as a sequence of objects for client side querying.</li> <li>Incorporating cryptography mechanisms to protect your data.</li> <li>Designing and implementing a consistent strategy for managing exceptions that occur in various architectural layers of your application.</li> <li>Implementing system logging through the wide variety of out-of-the box logging sinks or your custom provider.</li> <li>Performing structured and easy-to-maintain validation using attributes and rules sets.</li> </ul> The guide also demonstrates various ways of configuring Enterprise Library blocks. Let Enterprise Library do the heavy lifting for you and spend more time focusing on your business logic and less on application plumbing. “You are holding in your hands a book that will make your life as an enterprise developer a whole lot easier.” Scott Guthrie Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft .NET Developer Platform

Developer's Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library, C# Edition

Melnik, Grigori

Renaud, Erik

Simonazzi, Fernando

Botto, Nicolas

Brumfield, Bob

Tavares, Chris

Microsoft Press

Developer's Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library: Solutions for Enterprise Development: Visual Basic Edition (Patterns & Practices)

Programming

Microsoft Pr

This guide describes a scenario around a fictitious company named Tailspin that has decided to include Windows Phone 7 as a client device for their existing cloud-based application. Their Windows Azure-based application named Surveys is described in detail in a previous book in this series, Developing Applications for the Cloud. 
 After reading this book, you will be familiar with how to design and implement applications for Windows Phone 7 that take advantage of remote services to obtain and upload data while providing a great user experience on the device.

Windows® Phone 7 Developer Guide: Building connected mobile applications with Microsoft Silverlight®

Betts, Dominic

Densmore, Scott

Boerr, Federico

Salazar, Jose Gallardo

What is this book about? This comprehensive compendium provides a broad and thorough investigation of all aspects of programming with ASP.NET. Entirely revised and updated for the 1.0 Release of .NET, this book will give you the information you need to master ASP.NET and build dynamic, successful, enterprise Web applications. What does this book cover? Here are just a few of the topics covered in this book:  What ASP.NET is, and how it makes building applications even easier How easy it is to work with ASP.NET pages and server-side controls Accessing data of all kinds in your ASP.NET pages An introduction to ADO.NET Getting started with ASP.NET and the .NET Framework Creating ASP.NET pages, working with server controls, and data management Developing, securing, and configuring web applications Exploring Base class libraries, components, and extensibility Working with Web Services and ASP.NET in the mobile arena Debugging, performance, migration, and interoperability Integrating this knowledge in real world development contexts  Who is this book for? This book is aimed at experienced ASP developers working at the leading edge — rather than the casual ASP developer or beginner. We do not cover the basics of COM, ASP, or the .NET programming languages. This book is also ideal for Visual Basic developers who want to move into Web application design. What do you need to use this book? Here's what you need to know in order to use this book:  A solid understanding of ASP Familiarity with VB or C-based syntax (C++, Java(TM), or C#) A desire to develop sophisticated ASP.NET applications using the .NET Framework A desire for a comprehensive and in-depth guide to this exciting new technology

Professional Asp.Net 1.0 (Programmer to Programmer)

Francis, Brian

Anderson, Richard

Watson, Karli

Wrox Pr Inc

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