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Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX From Novice to Professional
This book is aimed at equipping you, the developer, to understand the technologies that are available to allow you to rapidly build secure, quality web experiences. Note that I use the term experiences and not applications or sites. That is because the user experience is the heart of the future Web.
Before you can start looking at the future, it is good to understand the current suite of web development and deployment technologies that are available to you. In Part 1 of this book, you’ll look at the Microsoft stack of technologies that allow you to build web services and applications, and how you’ll deploy them. It will be scenario-driven, so instead of going into depth on the various APIs, you’ll get your hands dirty in a step-by-step approach to building, testing, and deploying multitier web applications. You’ll look at databases and how to connect your application to them, and you’ll manage these connections through the deployment process. Ultimately, in the first six chapters, you’ll get a whirlwind tour of the full life cycle of application development using the .NET Framework (which always looks good on a resume!).
If you are new to ASP.NET, these six chapters will condense everything you need to know to get up and running with the framework. By the end of them, you’ll have learned the technology, the tools, and the servers, and gained the know-how to deploy a multipletier web service-based application to the enterprise server technology from Microsoft. Even if you are experienced with ASP.NET, this is a nice refresher!
Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
Now you can design rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web using Silverlight 2, the latest version of Microsoft’s hot new runtime application — without waiting for the official release. That’s right. With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you not only get a concise, easy-to-understand introduction to Silverlight 2, but thorough coverage of the CTPs, betas, and RTM releases as they become available.
Once you buy this Up-to-Date edition, you’ll be able to download free PDFs of all the revisions to Silverlight — pages that you can print and insert right into the book’s unique binder format. Pre-printed updates will also be available for purchase. It combines the the speed of technology with convenience of a book.
With Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date, you learn to take advantage of Microsoft’s cross-browser Silverlight plug-in with tools for animation, vector graphics, and video playback, as well as new .NET support for web services, networking and LINQ (language integrated query). This guide gives you complete step-by-step instructions for using everything Silverlight has to offer, along with:
* Clever ways to create interactive UIs that are more robust and easier to debug and test than what you can achieve on other platforms
* Scores of tested JavaScript and C# code examples that you can reuse in your own applications
* Expert guidance from an author who understands RIA technologies, including ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, and JavaScript
Ready to deliver a more complete Web experience? Now there’s no reason to wait. Essential Silverlight 2 Up to Date offers a whole new world of possibilities.
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