With this completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you'll quickly learn how to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features of Vista and .NET 3.0. You'll get in-depth descriptions of the development environment, basic program syntax, and standard controls. Plus, you'll explore the fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming with VB, discover how to take advantage of specific VB features, learn how to draw images, use GDI+ routines, and generate printed output.

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Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer's Reference: Programmer's Reference

By Rod Stephens

Edition: illustrated

Published by John Wiley and Sons, 2007

ISBN 0470137053, 9780470137055

1200 pages

• This comprehensive book offers readers everything they need to make the transition to the newest version of the world’s most popular programming language
• Coverage provides detailed information on how to use VB 2005 in the ever-expanding .NET world using both essential explanations of the topics and key code demonstrations
• Shows developers how to build everything from traditional console applications to ASP.NET applications and XML Web Services so they can take their abilities to new levels
• Addresses such issues as security, data access (ADO.NET), and the latest Visual Studio .NET IDE, as well as in-depth coverage of the .NET 3.0 Framework
• Discusses CLR (Common Language Runtime), variables and data types, object syntax introduction, inheritance and interfaces, applying objects and components, and error handling and debugging

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Professional VB 2005 with .Net 3.0

By Bill Evjen, Billy Hollis, Bill Sheldon, Tim McCarthy, Kent Sharkey

Edition: illustrated

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007

ISBN 0470124709, 9780470124703

1256 pages

A practical guide to applying patterns in building a customized architecture for the application you are developing.

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Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

By Jimmy Nilsson

Edition: illustrated

Published by Addison-Wesley, 2006

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized 16 Nov 2007

ISBN 0321268202, 9780321268204

528 pages

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Professional .NET Network Programming

By Srinivasa Sivakumar, Andrew Krowczyk, Ajit Magale, Vinod Kumar, Christian Nagel, Nauman Laghari, Tim Parker

Contributor Andrew Krowczyk

Edition: illustrated

Published by Wrox Press, 2002

ISBN 1861007353, 9781861007353

496 pages

Microsoft has introduced a new environment for creating Windows applications: .NET. The technologies it includes will change the way every Windows application is created, and will change the world of all developers. This is the most important new developer technology that Microsoft has introduced since Windows NT. Yet Microsoft has not done a good job of clearly explaining what .NET is and how it works. This book provides the technical introduction to .NET and the entire .NET Framework which developers and technical managers have been seeking ever since Microsoft's initial announcement. This will become known as the first book to go to for anyone seeking a solid understanding of .NET. Windows guru and bestselling author David Chappell has both the inner understanding of .NET and the clear, concise writing style to be able to explain it as no one else can.
-- Clear, concise, jargon-free, easily-understandable writing style, while still technically sound and thorough.
-- David is extremely well known in the Windows development world. Not just a great author, he really knows how to market his books as well.
-- For developers, this is the perfect place to begin mastering .NET, laying a solid foundation for future study. For technical managers, it will contain enough depth to enable them to make good decisions, without delving too deeply into implementation details.
-- Debut title in David Chappell's new Independent Technology Guide series. This series is aimed to be the first book that technical managers or developers pick up to gain an understanding of the essentials of a new technology.

The .NET Framework is the most important developer technology Microsoft has introducedsince the release of Windows NT, and will affect every software professional working in the Windows environment. It introduces a common set of application programming interfaces and a unified set of commands across all programming languages. It automatically takes care of all the housekeeping COM required so that developers can focus on writing business logic code specific to their applications. Applications built within it are automatically Internet-enabled. It lets developers actually program for the Web.

Written for technical managers and software developers looking for a deep but conceptual grounding in .NET, it gives readers an overview of .NET and the .NET Framework, coverage of Web services, Hailstorm, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and CLR-based languages, the unified class library, ASP.NET, and ADO.NET.

Developers and technical managers.

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Understanding .NET: a tutorial and analysis

By David Wayne Chappell

Edition: 3, illustrated

Published by Addison-Wesley, 2002

ISBN 0201741628, 9780201741629

348 pages

For example code from the text, Winsock adaptations of text code, sample programming exercises and more, click on the grey "COMPANION SITE" button to the right. Note: This title was formerly known as Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Socket Programming in C, ISBN 1-55860-686-6. TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers is a quick and affordable way to gain the knowledge and skills you need to develop sophisticated and powerful networked-based programs using sockets. Written by two experienced networking instructors, this book provides a series of examples that demonstrate basic sockets techniques for clients and servers. Using plenty of real-world examples, this book is a complete beginner's guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols. *Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing. *Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing. *Includes a detailed, easy-to-use reference to the system calls and auxiliary routines that comprise the sockets interface. *A companion Web site provides source code for all example programs in both C and WinSock versions, as well as guidance on running the code on various platforms.

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TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers

By Michael J. Donahoo, Kenneth L. Calvert

Edition: illustrated

Published by Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

ISBN 1558608265, 9781558608269

130 pages

Understanding the philosophy and architecture of .NET is important for any Microsoft developer. The .NET Framework is not an abstract programming model. It is a full-featured system that allows developers to implement their solutions and then make them available to other developers in a robust and secure environment. This book shows developers how to produce generic frameworks, libraries, classes, and tools to be used in the .NET Framework. It also shows how to use the right language to develop parts of a system and then incorporate these parts together at runtime regardless of language differences. The book will conclude with a series of appendices from contributors who are very active in the .NET community.

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Programming in the .NET Environment

By Damien Watkins, Mark J. Hammond, Brad Abrams

Edition: illustrated

Published by Addison-Wesley, 2002

ISBN 0201770180, 9780201770186

523 pages

Whether building a console application, a web service, or a smart client, you eventually need to distribute your finished work. Deploying .NET Applications is a complete guide to delivering applications built with .NET. Packed with hands-on guidance, practical examples, and war stories from the authors many experiences with deployment scenarios, this book provides everything you need to know.

The book begins by introducing the deployment problem, then examines why deployment is an engineering problem for organizations. Subsequent chapters provide detail about deploying each type of application, then discuss automated deployments. Youll want to get ahold of this book because it

• Includes hands-on detail about the newest deployment tools, MSBuild and ClickOnce
• Discusses many best practices of .NET 2.0 software deployment
• Covers details about automating new software deployments

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Deploying .NET applications: learning MSBuild and ClickOnce

By Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Edition: illustrated

Published by Apress, 2006

ISBN 1590596528, 9781590596524

258 pages

Learn how to improve your C# coding skills using unit testing. Despite it's name, unit testing is really a coding technique, not a testing technique. Unit testing is done by programmers, for programmers. It's primarily for our benefit: we get improved confidence in our code, better ability to make deadlines, less time spent in the debugger, and less time beating on the code to make it work correctly.

This book shows how to write tests, but more importantly, it goes where other books fear to tread and gives you concrete advice and examples of what to test--the common things that go wrong in all of our programs. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using the freely available NUnit framework. It's easy to learn how to think of all the things in your code that are likely to break. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website).

With this book you will:

Write better code, and take less time to write it

Discover the tricky places where bugs breed

Learn how to think of all the things that could go wrong

Test individual pieces of code without having to include the whole project

Test effectively with the whole team

We'll also cover how to use Mock Objects for testing, how to write high quality test code, and how to use unit testing to improve your design skills. We'll show you frequent "gotchas"--along with the fixes--to save you time when problems come up.

But the best part is that you don't need a sweeping mandate to change your whole team or your whole company. You don't need to adopt Extreme Programming, or Test-Driven Development, orchange your development process in order to reap the proven benefits of unit testing. You can start unit testing, the pragmatic way, right away.

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Pragmatic unit testing in C# with NUnit

By Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, Pragmatic Programmers (Firm)

Edition: illustrated

Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2004

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized 17 Nov 2007

ISBN 0974514020, 9780974514024

159 pages

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major elements.

WPF is the new presentation framework for Windows Vista that also works with Windows XP. It's a cornucopia of new technologies, which includes a new graphics engine that supports 3-D graphics, animation, and more; an XML-based markup language, called XAML, for declaring the structure of your Windows UI; and a radical new model for controls.

This second edition includes new chapters on printing, XPS, 3-D, navigation, text and documents, along with a new appendix that covers Microsoft's new WPF/E platform for delivering richer UI through standard web browsers -- much like Adobe Flash. Content from the first edition has been significantly expanded and modified. Programming WPF includes:

• Scores of C# and XAML examples that show you what it takes to get a WPF application up and running, from a simple "Hello, Avalon" program to a tic-tac-toe game
• Insightful discussions of the powerful new programming styles that WPF brings to Windows development, especially its new model for controls
• A color insert to better illustrate WPF support for 3-D, color, and other graphics effects
• A tutorial on XAML, the new HTML-like markup language for declaring Windows UI
• An explanation and comparison of the features that support interoperability with Windows Forms and other Windows legacy applications

WPF represents the best of the control-based Windows world and the content-based web world. Programming WPF helps you bring it all together.

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Programming WPF: Building Windows UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

By Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths

Edition: 2, revised, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2007

ISBN 0596510373, 9780596510374

863 pages

.NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies. In Programming .NET 3.5, 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 this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks.

While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a "Grand Tour" of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier and service-oriented applications. Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this hands-on guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy.

The concepts and technologies that this book covers include:

• XAML -- Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) -- a new presentation framework and graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp
• Ajax
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols
• Workflow Foundation (WF) -- framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows
• CardSpace -- framework for managing the identities of your users

You'll learn how to use each of the four frameworks alone and in concert to build a series of meaningful example applications. Examples are written in C#, and all of the source code will be available for download at both the O'Reilly and the authors' site, which offers access to a free support forum. br />

Between them, authors Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz have nearly forty years of experience in delivering commercial applications for companies such as Citibank, Apple, AT&T, NeXt, PBS, Ziff Davis, and dozens of smaller organizations. Their combined experience is valuable for telling the story of .NET 3.5 and how it will shorten the development life cycle for applications developers, and enhance your productivity.

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Programming .NET 3.5

By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz

Edition: illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2008

ISBN 059652756X, 9780596527563

455 pages

If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you're ready for C# design patterns -- elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers you a clear introduction to the classic object-oriented design patterns, and explains how to use the latest features of C# 3.0 to code them.

C# Design Patterns draws on new C# 3.0 language and .NET 3.5 framework features to implement the 23 foundational patterns known to working developers. You get plenty of case studies that reveal how each pattern is used in practice, and an insightful comparison of patterns and where they would be best used or combined. This well-organized and illustrated book includes:

• An explanation of design patterns and why they're used, with tables and guidelines to help you choose one pattern over another
• Illustrated coverage of each classic Creational, Structural, and Behavioral design pattern, including its representation in UML and the roles of its various players
• C# 3.0 features introduced by example and summarized in sidebars for easy reference
• Examples of each pattern at work in a real .NET 3.5 program available for download from O'Reilly and the author's companion web site
• Quizzes and exercises to test your understanding of the material.

With C# 3.0 Design Patterns, you learn to make code correct, extensible and efficient to save time up front and eliminate problems later. If your business relies on efficient application development and quality code, you need C# Design Patterns.

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C# 3.0 Design Patterns

By Judith Bishop

Edition: illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2007

ISBN 059652773X, 9780596527730

290 pages

If you want to speed up the development of your .NET applications, you're ready for C# design patterns -- elegant, accepted and proven ways to tackle common programming problems. This practical guide offers you a clear introduction to the classic object-oriented design patterns, and explains how to use the latest features of C# 3.0 to code them.

C# Design Patterns draws on new C# 3.0 language and .NET 3.5 framework features to implement the 23 foundational patterns known to working developers. You get plenty of case studies that reveal how each pattern is used in practice, and an insightful comparison of patterns and where they would be best used or combined. This well-organized and illustrated book includes:

• An explanation of design patterns and why they're used, with tables and guidelines to help you choose one pattern over another
• Illustrated coverage of each classic Creational, Structural, and Behavioral design pattern, including its representation in UML and the roles of its various players
• C# 3.0 features introduced by example and summarized in sidebars for easy reference
• Examples of each pattern at work in a real .NET 3.5 program available for download from O'Reilly and the author's companion web site
• Quizzes and exercises to test your understanding of the material.

With C# 3.0 Design Patterns, you learn to make code correct, extensible and efficient to save time up front and eliminate problems later. If your business relies on efficient application development and quality code, you need C# Design Patterns.

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C# 3.0 Design Patterns

By Judith Bishop

Edition: illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2007

ISBN 059652773X, 9780596527730

290 pages

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book.

C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more. The new edition is also complemented by a public wiki, which not only includes all of the C# 2.0 recipes from the previous edition unchanged by the release of C# 3.0, but invites you to suggest better ways to solve those tasks.

Here are some of topics covered:

• LINQ
• Numeric data types and Enumerations
• Strings and characters
• Classes and structures
• Generics
• Collections
• Exception handling
• Delegates, events, and lambda expressions
• Filesystem interactions
• Web site access
• XML usage (including LINQ to XML, XPath and XSLT)
• Networking
• Threading
• Data Structures & Algorithms

Each recipe in the book includes tested code that you can download from oreilly.com and reuse in your own applications, and each one includes a detailed discussion of how and why the underling technology works. You don't have to be an experienced C# or .NET developer to use C# 3.0 Cookbook. You just have to be someone who wants to solve a problem now, without having to learn all the related theory first.

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C# 3.0 Cookbook

By Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet

Edition: 3, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2007

ISBN 059651610X, 9780596516109

857 pages

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.NET. Rather than load you down with theory, the new edition of ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook gives you more than 200 coding solutions and best practices for real problems you're likely to face with this technology using Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 platform.

Organized to help you find the topic and specific recipe you need quickly and easily, this book is more than just a handy compilation of cut-and-paste C# code. ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook also offers clear explanations of how and why each code solution works, and warns you of potential pitfalls so you can learn to adapt the book's problem-solving techniques to different situations.

This collection of timesaving recipes covers vital topics including:

• Connecting to data
• Retrieving and managing data
• Transforming and analyzing data
• Modifying data
• Binding data to .NET user interfaces
• Optimizing .NET data access
• Enumerating and maintaining database objects
• Maintaining database integrity

Ideal for ADO.NET programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated, this new edition covers the significant 3.5 upgrade, including new programming tools such as LINQ. ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook offers a painless way for those of you who prefer to learn by doing when it comes to expanding your skills and productivity.

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ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook

By Bill Hamilton

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2008

ISBN 0596101406, 9780596101404

955 pages

SharpDevelop is a complete Integrated Development Environment, written in C#. It includes all the advanced features that programmers expect from a modern IDE and, of course, implementing these features has required some advanced programming techniques.This is one of THE books that advanced. NET developers will be able study so they can understand how they will tackle the major projects they will be asked to build in .NET in the coming years.

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Inside SharpDevelop

By Christoph Wille, B. Spuida

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2004

ISBN 1590593472, 9781590593479

550 pages

This book is written for architects and developers preparing to design and build enterprise-scale e-business applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework. It will guide technical architects and software developers through the design and development of a fully-featured e-commerce application, the gasTIX online ticketing system, using the .NET suite of technologies. Along the way, key concepts behind new .NET products such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Web Services are explained. The author team, consisting of several talented G.A. Sullivan consultants, has combined experience equaling tens of years in the trenches with the various releases of Microsoft Visual Studio.

The fully-functional live sample application built for the book can be seen at www.gasullivan.com

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.NET E-business Architecture

By Robert Amar, Matthew Baute, Don Benage, G. A. Sullivan

Edition: illustrated

Published by Sams Publishing, 2001

ISBN 0672322196, 9780672322198

576 pages