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Real World .NET Applications consists of six significant .NET applications, each representing one of the major application types: a custom Windows control, an XML document editor, a Pac-Man-style game, a drawing application, an FTP client application, and an ASP.NET online store.
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Developing .NET Enterprise Applications is a complete guide to building a scalable enterprise application using .NET technologies. Other available books deeply describe individual Framework components, such as database, Windows Forms, or WebForms, but none tie all the technologies into a single scalable application.
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Author Deborah Kurata has spoken to .NET user groups all over America sharing her “Best Kept Secrets in .NET,” and she often hears experienced developers say, “I didn’t know you could do that with .NET!” This book is a collection of Deborah’s insights into .NET secrets that can enhance your productivity and code quality.
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The .NET Compact Framework brings the world of managed code and XML Web services to smart devices, and it enables the execution of secure, downloadable applications on devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile phones, and set-top boxes.
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One of my New Year wishes for this coming year was that the standard committees would agree on threading classes for the C++ language. This limitation of the C++ language standard means that I have to rewrite my threading library each time I start a new job with a new company. I’ve always wished there was a standard threading library that I could use wherever I go.
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The .NET Framework development platform introduces many new concepts, technologies, and terms. The goal of this chapter is to give an overview of the .NET Framework: to show how it is architected, to introduce some of the new technologies, and to define many of the new terms.
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This introduction serves as a high-level overview of the different test approaches and tools, including Java Explorer, Java Framework, .NET Explorer, and .NET Framework that are offered by SilkPerformer SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Edition.
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