.NET Framework



Learning XNA 3.0, 1st Edition

Learning XNA 3.0, 1st Edition

By Aaron Reed

Do you have what it takes to become a game developer? With this hands-on book, you'll learn how to develop computer games with Microsoft's XNA 3.0 framework -- not just for your PC, but for Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune as well. Learning XNA 3.0 wa...

[Publish Date: November 2008]

Programming WPF, WPF 2nd Edition

Programming WPF, WPF 2nd Edition

By Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of the new rich user interface capabilities of the .NET 3.0 Framework, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation. Fully updated for the release of .NET 3.0, this new editi...

[Publish Date: August 2007]

Other Editions: Windows Presentation Foundation Edition

Programming Flex 3, 1st Edition

Programming Flex 3, 1st Edition

By Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott

If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Programming Flex 3 gives you a solid understanding...

[Publish Date: September 2008]

Programming .NET 3.5, 1st Edition

Programming .NET 3.5, 1st Edition

By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz

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 the new Microsoft frameworks. The boo...

[Publish Date: July 2008]

Programming Entity Framework--New from O'Reilly: Building Data Centric Apps ...

--> Sebastopol, CA—Developers spend far too much time worrying about their backend database, its tables and their relationships, the names and parameters of stored procedures and views, as well as the schema of the data that they return...

[Publish Date: February 12, 2009]

Rails for .NET Developers, 1st Edition

Rails for .NET Developers, 1st Edition

By Jeff Cohen, Brian Eng

Rails for .NET Developers introduces the joy of Ruby on Rails development to Microsoft .NET developers. This book demonstrates the essential elements of both the Ruby language and the Rails application framework, geared especially for developers alr...

[Publish Date: October 2008]

Introducting the ADO.NET Entity Framework - O'Reilly FYI Blog

By Kathryn Barrett

Julia Lerman, the leading independent authority on Microsoft's Entity Framework, claims that this technology changes the game for .NET developers so that they no longer have to be concerned with the details of the data store as they write their applications. Now they can focus on the task of writing the applications, rather than accessing the date. The following is an excerpt from Programming Entity Framework, in which Julia introduces the technology and explains the concept of programming against a model, not against the database.

[Publish Date: February 13, 2009]

Direct AtomPub Object Model Support Makes It Into .NET Framework - O'Reilly ...

By M. David Peterson

Brain.Save() - We are pleased to bring you new features in .NET 3.5 SP1 Syndication OM for the Atom Publishing Protocol. We added strongly-typed OM for all of the constructs defined in the Atom Publishing Protocol specification (like ServiceDocument and...

[Publish Date: May 12, 2008]

Join us for this free, live webcast: Entity Framework Tips & Tricks, ...

Developers discover a lot of behavior in the ADO.NET Entity Framework that is quite unexpected. Programming Entity Framework author, Julie Lerman, will help you avoid some surprises and show you tricks to make the most of Entity Framework. Learn how ...

[Publish Date: August 13, 2009]

[ScottGu:ASP.NET MVC Framework] The Road to Agility and the LURR Principal ...

By M. David Peterson

Listen: Pay attention to what your customers are telling you. Understand: Take the time to understand what your customers are telling you. Respond: Follow-up to what your customers are telling you where and as appropriate. Repeat: Keep listening, understanding, and...

[Publish Date: February 13, 2008]

No Fooling Around, (ASP.NET_MVC = (OSS) => OSS.MS-PL) == true - O'Reilly

By M. David Peterson

Furthering their effort to "Make Web Not War.", today Microsoft announced the release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework under the OSI approved MS-PL OSS license.

[Publish Date: April 01, 2009]

Introducing Enhanced Flex Components from Clear Toolkit Framework - InsideRIA

By Yakov Fain

The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview of some of the objects from clear.swc, which is a part of the open source Clear Toolkit framework available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit. Component library clear.swc includes a number of...

[Publish Date: March 06, 2009]