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	28 Articles found and displayed in this view. Chapter 9 - Case Study: Generating a Connection String Manager Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, August 30, 2010 Quick ID: 100183 Peter Vogel walks you through an end-to-end solution for code generation that concentrates on integrating with Visual Studio and working with the CodeElement objects. Practical Messaging Scenarios with WCF 4 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 SepOct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009051 Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 SepOct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009091 The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP. Visit the OData site at www.odata.org. Composite Application Library (Prism) and Silverlight Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 SepOct Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Quick ID: 1009101 With the advancement in the Silverlight technology starting with the 1.0 release to 2.0, 3.0, and lately 4.0, Silverlight is loudly saying WOW “Watch Out World.” Can you guess which world I am talking about here? It is the RIAs world! Really WOW! Chapter 1- Why WPF, and What About Silverlight Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 Quick ID: 100173 Adam Nathan explains how WPF 4 and Windows 7 are bringing multi-touch to the masses. Hour 1 - Getting Started with ASP.NET 4 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, July 19, 2010 Quick ID: 100163 Scott Mitchell introduces you to ASP.NET, shows you how to install Visual Web Developer, along with the .NET Framework and SQL Server 2008, and helps you create your first ASP.NET page. PostMortem: Harms Millennium MedSpa Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JulAug Release Date: Monday, June 28, 2010 Quick ID: 1008071 July/August2010 Post Mortem by Markus Egger What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0, Part One: Core Engine Features Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, The Web View Release Date: Monday, May 17, 2010 Quick ID: 100133 Microsoft released the .NET Runtime 4.0 and with it comes a brand spanking new version of ASP.NET - version 4.0 - which provides an incremental set of improvements to an already powerful platform. .NET 4.0 is a full release of the .NET Framework, unlike version 3.5, which was merely a set of library updates on top of the .NET Framework version 2.0. Because of this full framework revision, there has been a welcome bit of consolidation of assemblies and configuration settings. The full runtime version change to 4.0 also means that you have to explicitly pick version 4.0 of the runtime when you create a new Application Pool in IIS, unlike .NET 3.5, which actually requires version 2.0 of the runtime. New Features in WCF 4 that Will Instantly Make You More Productive Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 MayJun Release Date: Friday, May 07, 2010 Quick ID: 1006061 WCF 4 is all about productivity. Chapter 12: Delegates and Lambda Expressions Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Quick ID: 100123 PREVIOUS CHAPTERS DISCUSSED extensively how to create classes using many of the built-in C# language facilities for object-oriented development. The objects instantiated from classes encapsulate data and operations on data. As you create more and more classes, you see common patterns in the relationships between these classes. Chapter 8 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 05, 2010 Quick ID: 100093 C# is an evolving language. This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources. The examples in this chapter show how to improve the coding model for developers around reading data from various sources, including text files and how to combine data from a COM-Interop source into a LINQ to Objects query. Chapter 2: Creating Versatile Types Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 Quick ID: 100083 Whenever you create your own classes, you need to consider the circumstances under which they could be used. For example, will two instances of your Item struct ever be compared for equality? Will your Person class need to be serializable, or sortable? Chapter 11 - Inspect and Adapt Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, March 08, 2010 Quick ID: 100073 “This chapter excerpt is from the book, Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum”, authored by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, January 26, 2010, ISBN 0321636406, Copyright 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. For a full Table of Contents, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0321636406 Advanced .NET Debugging Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010 Quick ID: 100053 Mario Hewardt takes a look at the internals of the CLR heap manager and the GC and some common pitfalls that can wreak havoc in your application.He shows how to utilize the debuggers and a set of other tools to illustrate how to get to the bottom of the problems. Creating Self-Scaling Applications with Azure Services Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 MarApr Release Date: Friday, February 12, 2010 Quick ID: 1003061 Microsoft’s Azure platform has finally been released into production. This new entry into the cloud computing market provides .NET developers with a scalable, robust platform for developing applications.After over a year in CTP, Azure is finally ready for prime time. At PDC 2009, Microsoft announced the release of new components, such as the management API, that make Azure worth considering for use in production environments. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the different components of Azure Services to build a self-scaling application. Graphics in Silverlight 3 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, February 08, 2010 Quick ID: 100043 In this chapter, you will learn how to add rich vector graphics and images to your application.You will also learn how to optimize performance and image quality of those graphics elements. WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 25, 2010 Quick ID: 100023 WPF Control Development Unleashed: Building Advanced User Experiences Chapter 2 The Diverse Visual Class Structure In the first chapter, we talked about how the construction of a framework like WPF is much like the construction of a house. If you don’t know why certain things are built the way they are, you are likely to use them improperly and break something. Chapter 1: RESTful Systems: Back to the Future Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 11, 2010 Quick ID: 090143 Developers are rapidly discovering the power of REST to simplify the development of even the most sophisticated Web services—and today’s .NET platform is packed with tools for effective REST development. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete, practical guide to building REST-based services with .NET development technologies. Practical Uses of Lambdas Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JanFeb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001051 Deborah covers many of the different ways you can use lambda expressions to work with your lists and make your code easier to read and write.Lambdas provide shortcuts for sorting, filtering, finding and working with information in lists, making your code easier to read and write. Generating Code Using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2010 JanFeb Release Date: Friday, December 11, 2009 Quick ID: 1001071 Visual Studio 2010 makes T4 easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. Kathleen shows you how to use T4 in Studio 2005 and beyond.Microsoft included its T4 generation language in the box in Visual Studio 2008 and added important new features in Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 makes generation easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates.Code generation lets you automatically create significant portions of your application. It has the potential to decrease bugs and increase your ability to alter code across your application as needs change. Microsoft’s generation language is T4 and it is included in the box starting with Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2010 makes T4 easier to find and supplies a powerful new feature called preprocessed templates. I’ll show you how to use T4 in Studio 2005 and beyond. What’s New in Visual C# 4.0? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 Quick ID: 0911071 Visual C# version 4.0 offers new features that make it easier for you to work in dynamic programming scenarios.Besides dynamic programming, you have support for optional and named parameters, better COM interop support, and contra-variance and covariance. This article will show you how each of these features work and provide suggestions of how they can be applied to help you be more productive. What’s New in Entity Framework 4? Part 1: API Changes Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Sep/Oct Release Date: Monday, August 17, 2009 Quick ID: 0909081 If you have been working with the ADO.NET Entity Framework, you have probably been extremely eager to get your hands on the next version that is now part of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Long referred to as “EF Version 2,” this version is now called Entity Framework 4 or EF4, to align with the .NET Framework 4.0 version. Chapter 1: Mashup Styles, Techniques, and Technologies Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Saturday, August 01, 2009 Quick ID: 090093 This chapter is an excerpt from the new book, Mashups: Strategies for the Modern Enterprise by Jeffrey Hanson, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 032159181X Copyright 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. For more info please visit: www.informit.com/title/032159181X Safari Books Online subscribers can access the book here: http://safari.informit.com/9780321591869To begin design work on a mashup, you must determine what is to be “mashed” together. Three high-level categories of items can be mashed together-user interface artifacts (presentation), data, and/or application functionality (processes). This might include HTML snippets, on-demand JavaScript to access an external API, web service APIs from one of your corporate servers, RSS feeds, and/or other data to be mixed and mashed within the application or pages. The implementation style, techniques, and technologies used for a given mashup depend on this determination. Once the items are determined, your development team can proceed with applying languages, processes, and methodologies to the application at hand.In this chapter, I point out some of the most widely used styles, techniques, and technologies to build mashups for each of the three primary categories or items. The State of WPF & Silverlight Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2009 Jul/Aug Release Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 Quick ID: 0907161 Markus Egger discusses the current State of WPF and Silverlight and the overall importance and acceptance of these technologies. Ruby Comes to the .NET Platform Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008 Quick ID: 0809061 Microsoft’s IronRuby project brings a powerful and fun dynamic language to the Windows platform. In this article, I’ll examine the history of Ruby and the IronRuby project at Microsoft. I’ll talk about why a .NET programmer may want to learn and use Ruby, and cover the core syntax of the language to get you started learning it Introducing IronPython Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2008 Sep/Oct Release Date: Friday, August 22, 2008 Quick ID: 0809071 IronPython is easy to learn yet surprisingly powerful language for .NET development. In this article, I’ll introduce you to IronPython and demonstrate it differs from C# and Visual Basic while still allowing you to leverage your existing .NET knowledge. The Provider Model Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2007 Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 26, 2007 Quick ID: 0711081 In this article you will learn how to isolate yourself from change by taking advantage of the Provider Model.Designing your applications using the Provider Model will allow you to swap components out at runtime, thus allowing you to upgrade them easily. Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: CHAPTER 3: Caching Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, January 01, 1753 Quick ID: 100013 Caching is an important cornerstone of high-performance web sites. You can use it to accomplish the following: Reduce round-trips: Content cached at the client or in proxies can eliminate web server round-trips. Content cached at the web server can eliminate database round-trips. Move content closer to clients: The farther away from clients content is located, the longer it takes to retrieve. Avoid time-consuming processes of regenerating reusable content: For content that takes a lot of time or resources to generate, system performance and scalability are improved if you can generate content once and then reuse it many times. Optimize state management: Caching state information at the client is more scalable than storing it in a central location (within certain bounds, as discussed later).