Posts Tagged ‘.net’

Agile C♯

Friday, February 19th, 2010

book coverAgile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C♯ / Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2007

Developers will want to read this book. With a foreword by Erich Gamma, of Eclipse fame. Hardcover, 700 pages.

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Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5

Monday, February 8th, 2010

book coverMurach’s ADO.NET 3.5 : LINQ and the Entity Framework with C# 2008 / Anne Boehm, Murach, c2009.

This is for the programmer who is developing web apps on Microsoft servers. It starts with very simple steps. Large format, 650 pages.

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ASP.NET MVC Framework

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

book coverPro ASP.NET MVC Framework / Steven Sanderson, Apress, 2009

This well written book for web developers starts slow but rapidly gets advanced.

  • Architectural background to ASP.NET MVC, including Model–View–Controller and REST concepts.
  • ASP.NET MVC framework with detailed coverage of all aspects of the framework and the official MVC development toolkit.
  • Test–driven development in action.
  • Translation and comparison of features in classic ASP.NET to those in ASP.NET MVC.
  • Security and deployment issues, including IIS 7.0.

550 pages.

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Windows 7 for Developers

Monday, January 18th, 2010

book coverIntroducing Windows 7 for Developers / Yochay Kiriaty, Microsoft Press, 2010

There is lots of new functionality in Windows libraries.

  1. Welcome to Windows 7
  2. Integrate with the Windows 7 Taskbar: Basic Features
  3. Integrate with the Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features
  4. Organize My Data: Libraries in Windows 7
  5. Touch Me Now: An Introduction to Multitouch Programming
  6. Touch Me Now: Advanced Multitouch Programming
  7. Building Multitouch Applications in Managed Code
  8. Using Windows 7 Touch with Silverlight
  9. Introduction to the Sensor and Location Platform
  10. Tell Me Where I Am: Location-Aware Applications
  11. Develop with the Windows Ribbon, Part 1
  12. Develop with the Windows Ribbon, Part 2
  13. Rediscover the Fundamentals: It’s All About Performance

350 pages.

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Programming Entity Framework

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

book coverProgramming Entity Framework / Julia Lerman, O’Reilly, 2009

Programmers of data intensive apps in the Microsoft environment will find this book valuable. Well written, 600 pages.

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Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

book coverProfessional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework / Roger Jennings, Wiley, 2009

Programs using Microsoft libraries such as LINQ and ADO can be shorter and more abstract, at the expense of being unreadable if you don’t have access to books such as this one. 600 pages.

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Essential Silverlight 3

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

book coverEssential Silverlight 3 / Ashraf Michail, Addison-Wesley, 2009

A book for programmers using Silverlight for rich internet apps. It discusses enabling GPU acceleration, among other things.

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Pro C# 2008

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform / Andrew Troelsen, Apress, 2007

A huge book! 1350 pages, hardcover.

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Professional ASP.NET MVC

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 / Rob Conery, Wiley, 2009

Here is an advanced book on ASP that describes a web framework. 400 pages.

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Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#

Monday, June 29th, 2009

book coverBeginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C# : from novice to professional / Cristian Darie, Apress 2009

You may recall ASP as a server-side scripting language, but this book has moved on from that. This book teaches C# and .NET, and practical business planning. It is well written, with much example code, and covers all the details you will have to think of in creating an e-commerce site. 700 pages.

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