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1. | ![]() Pro Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management By: Joachim Rossberg Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 01-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 25-JUN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Visual Studio Team System Application Lifecycle Management
You can have the best coders in the world working in your teams, but if your project management isn't up to scratch, your project is almost certain to be delayed, to come in over budget, and in some cases to fail entirely. By taking precise control of your application development process, you can make changes, both large and small, throughout your project's life cycle that will lead to better-quality finished products that are consistently delivered on time and within budget.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is an area of rapidly growing interest within the IT development...
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2. | Overview: LINQ For Dummies®
If you’ve asked yourself “Why can’t I develop database and XML queries in a language I already know?”, then Language INtegrated Query, or LINQ, is for you. LINQ For Dummies introduces you to LINQ and the .NET Framework technologies, so you can use LINQ to query any object, any data set, any kind of XML, and SQL Server—no questions asked.
This plain-English guide gives you a thorough overview of LINQ, from understanding the tasks it performs to making LINQ work with both Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2005. It explains the four LINQ providers in the .NET Framework, the easiest ways to go...
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3. | ![]() Visual Studio® 2008 ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMMIES® By: Rick Leinecker; Vanessa L. Williams Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-APR-2008 Insert Date: 17-APR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Studio® 2008 ALL-IN-ONE DESK REFERENCE FOR DUMMIES®
Visual Studio 2008 is packed with features that help you create better software and do it with less repetition and drudgery. Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies shows you how to make the most of this cool suite of tools! It’s all here!
This comprehensive, seven-books-in-one guide gets you up and running with Visual Studio 2008 in no time. You’ll discover Microsoft’s vision for Visual Studio, get familiar with the .Net environment and languages, and learn how to install, browse, and make connections with Visual Studio. Soon, you’ll be building applications for Vista,...
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4. | ![]() Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action By: Jamil Azher Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 20-FEB-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action In complex software projects, managing the development process can
be as critical to success as writing the code itself. A project may
involve dozens of developers, managers, architects, testers, and
customers, hundreds of builds, and thousands of opportunities to
get off-track. To keep tabs on the people, tasks, and components of
a medium- to large-scale project, most teams use a development
system that allows for easy monitoring, follow-up, and
accountability.
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 (TFS), the server
component of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), provides
a...
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5. | In Detail
The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new way to build the data
access layer of your Windows or web applications. It's an Object
Relational Mapping (ORM) technology that makes it easy to tie
together the data in your database with the objects in your
applications, by abstracting the object model of an application
from its relational or logical model.
This clear and concise book gets you started with the Entity
Framework and carefully gives you the skills to speed up your
application development by constructing a better data access layer.
It shows you how to get the most from the...
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6. | ![]() Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips By: Sara Ford Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 27-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft® Visual Studio® Tips
Just as a race car team analyzes every aspect of car and driver
data to optimize endurance and speed imagine your potential if you
could optimize every aspect of daily coding activities with Visual
Studio! The author a member of the Visual Studio team for five
years has identified 251 tips to help you do just that. In her own
words, There was much about Visual Studio I didn t know...until I
had to learn and test it ALL. What I discovered is that although
Visual Studio has a lot of options, it isn t endless and it doesn t
have to be overwhelming. In fact, Visual Studio can be mastered...
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7. | Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit. Fully updated and revised! Ace
your preparation for the skills measured by MCTS Exam 70-536 and on
the job. With this official Microsoft study guide, you ll work at
your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully
cover each exam objective. Then reinforce and apply what you ve
learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
Maximize your performance on the exam by learning to: Develop
applications that use system types and collections Validate input,
reformat text, and extract data with regular expressions Create
services...
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8. | ![]() Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform By: Daniel Larson Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 12-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 20-JAN-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform Delve into the fundamental architectural principles and techniques
for developing service-oriented AJAX applications for the
enterprise. This guide offers a code-heavy, example-based approach
to learning how to write a modern services API and an AJAX front
end that can easily be extended, reused, and integrated by third
parties. Focusing on Microsoft technologies and enterprise servers,
including Microsoft SharePoint(r) Server 2007, ASP.NET AJAX, and
Microsoft .NET Frameworks 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5, this book walks you
through a client-centric UI architecture programmed against an...
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9. | Overview: Your Cubase® Studio You’ve recently purchased Cubase. You’re ready to set
up your home recording studio and finally produce that album
you’ve been talking about. Now what? Your Cubase Studio
provides a complete guide to setting up your digital recording
studio with Cubase so you can start recording music right away. It
starts with a general introduction to Cubase and digital recording,
optimizing your computer to get the best sound, purchasing the
right equipment that suits your budget, and the basics of
acoustics. It then moves on to provide a complete overview of the
recording process, whether you’re laying...
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10. | ![]() Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition By: Juval Löwy Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 06-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 04-NOV-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition
Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling
introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing
service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. Hailed as the most
definitive treatment of WCF available, this relentlessly practical
book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn the
topics and skills you need for building WCF-based applications that
are maintainable, extensible, and reusable.
Author Juval Lowy, Microsoft software legend and participant in
WCF's original strategic design review, revised this new edition
for the latest...
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