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Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, 2nd Edition: Chapter 14: Applications
Updated: 7 Sep 2006

The seemingly simple application architecture in Windows Forms and .NET provides some useful capabilities, including tailored lifetime support and support for building SDI and MDI applications, whether multiple or single-instance.

Addison-Wesley

4.76

ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated - Chapter 2: Is It Really This Easy?
Updated: 20 Jul 2006

This chapter presents a scenario-based demonstration focused on a day in the life of a developer who is in the process of fulfilling the requirements of a fictional customer.

Addison-Wesley

4.71

.NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications: Chapter 11 - Custom Cultures
Updated: 14 Aug 2006

Custom cultures in the .NET Framework represent a great leap forward and open new and exciting possibilities to developers. The new cultures are recognized by the .NET Framework as first-class citizens and, once registered, are as valid as any other culture.

Addison-Wesley

4.70

Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET
Updated: 14 Feb 2006

Chapter 6: Presenting Data with the DataGridView Control.

Addison-Wesley

4.57

Essential C# 2.0: Chapter 11: Generics
Updated: 30 Aug 2006

Generics will significantly transform C# 1.0 coding style. In virtually all cases in which programmers used object within C# 1.0 code, generics would be a better choice in C# 2.0 to the extent that object should act as a flag for a possible generics implementation.

Addison-Wesley

4.55

Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005: Chapter 1 - Introducing .NET
Updated: 27 Oct 2006

An introduction to .NET.

Addison-Wesley

4.50

Essential ASP.NET 2.0, 2nd Edition: Chapter 4: State Management
Updated: 7 Dec 2006

ASP.NET 2.0 does not offer a penultimate solution for storing client state, but it does introduce three new features that should be considered any time you are looking for a place to store state on behalf of individual users.

Addison-Wesley

4.19

Programming in the .NET Environment - Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams
Updated: 19 Sep 2003

Sample Chapter from Programming in the .NET Environment

Addison-Wesley

3.83

Chapter 3: Basic Concepts: C# Programming Language, The, 2nd Edition
Updated: 9 Jun 2006

The C# Programming Language, Second Edition, is the definitive reference for programmers who want to acquire an in-depth knowledge of C#.

Addison-Wesley

3.81

Excerpt from Essential Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Updated: 5 Sep 2007

This chapter will lay out some of the basic principles of WPF and walk through a quick overview of the entire platform. You can think of this chapter as a preview of the rest of the book.

Chris_Anderson

3.43

Applied .NET: Developing People-Oriented Software Using C#
Updated: 4 Nov 2001

Applied.NET illustrates development of several .NET applications using C#.

Chanda Leary-Coutu

2.50

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics For An Imperfect World
Updated: 24 Mar 2002

The Career Programmer explains how the individual programmer or project manager can work within the existing system to solve deadline problems and regain control of the development process.

Christopher Duncan

4.73

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics For An Imperfect World - Chapter 5
Updated: 5 Apr 2002

Getting Your Requirements Etched in Stone

Christopher Duncan

4.60

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail - Chapters 7, 8
Updated: 8 Feb 2006

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry. This book reaches out to managers, developers, and customers who use industry-standard methodologies, but whose projects still struggle to succeed.

stepang

4.54

A Preview of Active Server Pages+ - Chapter 1: Introducing ASP+
Updated: 28 Nov 2000

An introduction to ASP.NET

Wrox

4.50

Beginning C# - Chapter 13: Using Windows Form Controls
Updated: 16 Oct 2001

An introduction to using Windows Forms in your C# applications.

Wrox

4.48

Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET - By Mark Easton, Jason King
Updated: 3 Nov 2004

Sample from the book - Chapter 5

Profox Jase

4.48

Beginning XML - Chapter 2: Well-Formed XML
Updated: 28 Nov 2000

XML syntax and writing well formed XML

Wrox

4.43

XSLT Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition
Updated: 4 Sep 2001

This chapter is about the purpose of XSLT and the task it was designed to perform.

Wrox

4.33

Professional .NET Framework - Chapter 10 - Working with Data in .NET
Updated: 14 Nov 2001

This chapter explains what is involved in working with data in the .NET framework.

Wrox

4.30

A Programmer's Introduction to C# - Chapter 21
Updated: 22 Nov 2000

Erik Gunnerson writes about Attributes in C#

Eric Gunnerson (msft)

4.28

Professional C# - Graphics with GDI+

Updated: 5 Sep 2001

An explanation and demonstration of the concepts behind GDI+.

.NET 1.0, Windows, VS, Dev, Intermediate

Wrox

4.18

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail - Chapter 2
Updated: 8 Feb 2006

This chapter identifies twelve key characteristics of software development that makes it unique.

stepang

4.07

C# and the .NET Platform - Chapter 6
Updated: 24 Nov 2001

Assemblies, Threads, and AppDomains

aPress

4.06

Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET
Updated: 4 Sep 2001

This chapter will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to ASP.NET using VB.NET.

Wrox

3.81

ADO.NET Programmer's Reference - Chapter 16 - COM Interoperability
Updated: 14 Nov 2001

This chapter explains how to use Interop to incorporate the features from our existing unmanaged components and other classic ADO objects.

Wrox

3.80

HTML 4.01 Programmer's Reference - Chapter 1: Introduction
Updated: 4 Sep 2001

Using the <object> tag to embed functionality into your web pages.

Wrox

3.78

Professional XML - Chapter 15: Data Binding
Updated: 26 Jun 2001

This chapter explains what data binding is and how it can be used to simplify programming applications that need to interact with XML data

Louise Barr

3.60

A Preview of C# - Chapter 7: Namespaces and the Base Classes
Updated: 28 Nov 2000

An introduction to Namespaces and the Base Classes

Wrox

3.57

Professional ASP XML - Chapter 10: Data Driven XSL
Updated: 28 Nov 2000

A case study which develops a real word application using ASP and XML

Wrox

3.00

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail - Chapters 1, 4
Updated: 30 Dec 2005

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail offers a new path to success in the software industry. This book reaches out to managers, developers, and customers who use industry-standard methodologies, but whose projects still struggle to succeed.

stepang

2.02

Practical .NET2 and C#2: An introduction to MSBuild
Updated: 7 Feb 2006

An introduction to the MSBuild technology.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

4.76

Learn SVG: The Web Graphics Standard

Updated: 15 Dec 2003

Learn SVG: The Web Graphics Standard - Chapter 7

Jon Frost

4.60

Chapter 7 - Programming with XML
Updated: 13 Oct 2002

Sample chapter from Learn XML In A Weekend by Erik Westermann

Erik Westermann

4.53

ODP.NET Developer’s Guide: Oracle Database 10g Development with Visual Studio 2005 and the Oracle Data Provider for .NET - Chapter 2: Connecting to Oracle
Updated: 10 Aug 2007

A practical guide for developers working with the Oracle Data Provider for .NET and the Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2005

Packt Publishing

4.50

Building Websites with VB.NET - Chapter 7: Creating Custom Modules
Updated: 3 May 2006

In this chapter, we are going to walk you through creating a custom module for the CoffeeConnections portal.

Mohan Raphel

4.41

Windows Forms Programming with C# - Chapter 10: List Controls
Updated: 16 Jun 2002

This chapter covers List Control handling in C#

Erik Brown

4.41

Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development: Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint
Updated: 14 Dec 2005

In this chapter, we discuss a few of the options available to MCMS developers for adding search functionality to their sites. We also take an in-depth look at the searching features built into SharePoint Portal Server and how they can be leveraged as a back-end search workhorse for an MCMS site.

Mohan Raphel

4.40

Design Patterns: Command Pattern

Updated: 16 May 2007

Commands are useful tools when dealing with behaviors in objects. By making the request to an object, a Command object, and storing the command in an Invoker object, we can modify and keep historical records of different actions performed on an object.

Christopher G. Lasater

4.28

C#2 Anonymous Methods
Updated: 15 Jun 2006

This article presents a new feature named anonymous methods added to the 2.0 version of the C# language. Unlike generics, this feature does not involve new IL instructions. All the magic happens at the level of the compiler.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

4.26

List of .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 new features
Updated: 24 Feb 2006

A list of .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 new features.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

4.26

Practical .NET2 and C#2 - ASP.NET 2.0: Handling a page request on several threads
Updated: 28 Apr 2006

ASP.NET 2.0: Handling a page request on several threads.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

4.26

AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications: Chapter 5: AJAX chat and JSON
Updated: 27 Jun 2006

In this chapter, we'll implement our own online chat application. We'll use this occasion to learn about JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), which represents an alternative to XML for representing data exchanged between the web browser and the web server.

Mohan Raphel

4.26

AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications - Chapter 1: AJAX and the Future of Web Applications

Updated: 26 Apr 2006

A quick introduction to the world of AJAX.

Mohan Raphel

4.25

RSS and Atom: Understanding and Implementing Content Feeds and Syndication - Chapter 1: "What are Newsfeeds?"
Updated: 23 Nov 2005

An introduction to newsfeeds and syndication formats.

Mohan Raphel

3.91

Practical .NET2 and C#2: Event programming with C#
Updated: 7 Feb 2006

An article on the keyword event in C#

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

3.79

Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 7 - Chapter 3 : Domino Domain Monitoring
Updated: 26 Jan 2006

Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) allows you to monitor the status of multiple servers in one or more domains, all from a single location.

Mohan Raphel

3.76

Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit - Chapter 8
Updated: 29 Jun 2004

Sample chapter from the book

Scott Allen

3.67

The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book - Chapter 4: Whole Solutions
Updated: 5 Apr 2006

A sample solution for Our Company, integrating various Outlook and Office components, and another 'whole solution', a School‑based example that haven't yet been introduced.

Mohan Raphel

3.64

Getting published
Updated: 28 Jun 2001

Ever wanted to write or review a book? Karen Wachs of Sams Publishing gives some valuable tips.

Sams Publishing

3.53

Practical .NET2 and C#2: Chapter 5
Updated: 16 Mar 2006

This chapter describes the System.Threading.Monitor class and the lock C# keyword.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

3.37

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services - Chapter 5: Oracle BPEL Process Manager and BPEL Designer: Overview
Updated: 18 Jan 2006

In this chapter, we will get familiar with the Oracle BPEL Process Manager 10g Release 2, a server for deployment, execution, and management of business processes defined in BPEL.

Mohan Raphel

3.00

Thread_Resource affinity
Updated: 24 Mar 2006

How to simplify the synchronization of acces to your resources by using the notion of affinity between threads and resources.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

2.70

User Training for Busy Programmers: Chapter 4: Develop Lectures
Updated: 11 Dec 2005

If you are a busy programmer or software professional who is lumbered with the job of training users, then this article is for you.

Mohan Raphel

2.62

Practical .NET2 and C#2
Updated: 3 Mar 2006

Exception management guidelines for use in C#.

Patrick Smacchia MVP.NET

1.50

Chapter Excerpt - LINQ Quickly

Updated: 8 Dec 2007

This article will see how to create typed XML, the features supported by typed XML, and how it helps in development.

VB, XML, .NET, Dev, Intermediate

Duane S Moraes

C++/CLI in Action - Instantiating CLI classes
Updated: 26 Feb 2007

This is an excerpt from Chapter 1 that covers how CLI classes are instantiated, and discusses constructors and assignment operators

Nishant Sivakumar

4.75

C++/CLI in Action - Declaring CLR types
Updated: 24 Feb 2007

Excerpts from Chapter 1. Topics are (1) Declaring CLR types and (2) Handles: The CLI equivalent to pointers

Nishant Sivakumar

4.74

C++/CLI in Action - Using interior and pinning pointers
Updated: 28 Feb 2007

Excerpt from Chapter 4 on interior and pinning pointers

Nishant Sivakumar

4.59

Microsoft Reporting Services in Action
Updated: 5 Jan 2005

Introducing Microsoft Reporting Services.

Teo Lachev

4.50

Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web - Chapter 5: Searching
Updated: 6 Jan 2005

Semantic web and searching.

Helen Trimes

4.36

Windows Forms Programming with C# - Chapter 3: Menus
Updated: 16 Jun 2002

This chapter covers menu creation and handling in C#

Erik Brown

4.26

Microsoft .NET for Programmers - Chapter 3
Updated: 26 Jan 2002

Case study: a video poker machine

Helen Trimes

3.95

Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web - Chapter 1: The Semantic Web
Updated: 6 Jan 2005

The Semantic Web.

Helen Trimes

1.80

Inside C#, Second Edition: String Handling and Regular Expressions Part 1
Updated: 15 May 2002

This article will examine the String class, some of its simple methods, and its range of formatting specifiers.

Tom Archer - MSFT

4.72

Data Types in Microsoft® Dynamics™ NAV
Updated: 12 Nov 2007

Excerpt from a chapter that focuses on NAV data types - they are financially and business oriented, and make it easier to design and develop typical business applications

Packt Publishing

Windows NT Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions - Chapter 7: Data Access
Updated: 13 Mar 2001

This chapter provides an overview on using the Win32::ODBC extension using Perl

New Riders

4.75

Windows NT Shell Scripting - Chapter 5: A Scripting Toolkit
Updated: 13 Feb 2001

An introduction to the native Windows NT scripting language, including shell command syntax

New Riders

4.10

Applying COM+ - Chapter 9: Compensating Resource Managers
Updated: 20 Mar 2001

COM+ holds the promise of greater efficiency and more diverse capabilities for developers who are creating applications - either enterprise or commercial software - to run on a Windows 2000 system.

New Riders

3.92

Win32 Perl Programming: The Administrator's Handbook. Chapter 3 - Tools
Updated: 13 Mar 2001

This chapter covers an assortment of scripts simplify and lessen the workload of an administrator.

New Riders

3.80

Windows Script Host. Chapter 7 - Built-In WSHand VBScript Objects
Updated: 13 Mar 2001

This chapter details some objects that are supplied as part of either VBScript or Windows Script Host, and that are, therefore, available to system script authors.

New Riders

3.79

An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4: Chapter 9: QObject
Updated: 11 Oct 2006

QObject: An important class to become familiar with, the one from which all Qt Widgets are derived.

Prentice Hall

4.15

Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#: Chapter 38: The Payroll User Interface: Model View Presenter
Updated: 31 Aug 2006

A Model View presenter: the payroll user interface.

Prentice Hall

3.90

Excerpt from Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed - Chapter 1
Updated: 22 Nov 2007

An introduction to Silverlight, the promising alternative to Flash, which enables the creation of rich web content and applications using a lightweight add-on that is friendly to both designers and developers.

AdamNathan

4.50

Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook
Updated: 4 Mar 2004

Chapter 3: Strings and Regular Expressions

Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson

4.12

Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start Chapter 3: The .NET Base Class Libraries
Updated: 18 Feb 2004

An introduction to the .NET base class libraries.

Sams Publishing

4.00

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit Chapter 3: Understanding Objects and Collections
Updated: 18 Feb 2004

Understanding Objects and Collections in VB.NET.

Sams Publishing

4.00

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Kick Start Chapter 3: Building Windows Applications

Updated: 3 Mar 2004

An introduction to building Windows applications using Visual Basic .NET.

Sams Publishing

3.21

Microsoft .NET Kick Start Chapter 3: Programming with .NET

Updated: 3 Mar 2004

An introduction to programming with .NET.

Sams Publishing

3.17

ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook Chapter 3: Custom Controls
Updated: 18 Feb 2004

The most common techniques in building custom controls in ASP.NET.

Sams Publishing

2.88

ASP .NET Kick Start Chapter 3: Creating Basic Web Form Pages
Updated: 27 Apr 2003

In this chapter, you learn how to build Web Form Pages.

Sams Publishing

2.09

Excerpt from Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed (WCF)
Updated: 10 Sep 2007

This article introduces the .NET 2.0 Framework facilities — partial types, generics, nullable value types, the Lightweight Transaction Manager, and Role Providers — to better understand how to work with Windows Presentation Foundation.

Craig McMurtry

1.86

Excerpt from Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (WPF)
Updated: 7 Sep 2007

This article introduces some of the main concepts that WPF introduces above and beyond what .NET programmers are already familiar with.

AdamNathan

1.00