Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional

Get comfortable with the most powerful version of the .NET Framework devised yet, by embracing new techniques and innovations to create your applications faster, using a wide range of tools.

The C# 2008 language is your gateway to the powerful .NET platform. C# combined with Visual Studio gives you the freedom to create your applications faster and with a greater range of tools than any other coding environment.

The new .NET “Orcas” Framework is the most powerful yet, devised with new innovations such as Language Integrated Query, making it easy for you to query your databases directly from your C# code; and ASP.NET AJAX, giving you drag-and-drop access to AJAX techniques for your web pages.

With Beginning C# 2008, expert author Christian Gross, will have you creating real applications in the first few pages, continuing with valuable support by building in good design and testing habits into every chapter. You’ll learn much more than just the C# language; you’ll gradually understand the mindset of a true developer as you progress through the book.

What you’ll learn

? C# 2008!

? Learn everything you need to begin building your own applications in a solid, well-considered way: this book will teach you .NET coding from the ground up.

? Use the Visual Studio IDE to create, debug, and deploy your applications.

? Understand the mysteries of database access and the many ways that it can be accomplished from C#.

? Delve deep into the huge range of supporting technologies that the .NET Framework offers–LINQ, ASP.NET AJAX, ADO.NET 3.0, WPF, WCF, and Windows Workflow are all introduced and explained in a straightforward, easy-to-follow way.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone who’s just starting out to learn about C#. It doesn’t assume any prior knowledge of object-oriented programming, of the .NET Framework, or of coding in general. It simply assumes that you’re an intelligent person who wants to learn and starts the journey from there.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry-level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know–but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real-world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there–it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

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? Foundations of LINQ in C#

? Beginning SQL Server 2005 for Developers: From Novice to Professional

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library introduces one of the most exciting and popular .NET-oriented initiatives, the Enterprise Library. The EL offers nine classes of reusable code, or blocks, that are used to solve a variety of common problem spaces. These problems cover a number of topics, including configuration, data access, exception management, caching, application updates, UI separation, asynchronous invocation, logging, security, and XML-based information aggregation.

Author Keenan Newton, a senior consultant for noted Microsoft Partner Magenic, begins the book with an introduction to common challenges, explaining the conditions that brought about the creation of the EL. After an EL overview, subsequent chapters offer detailed information about each of the nine blocks. The book concludes by outlining the framework available for creating custom application blocks.

You’ll be able to build .NET applications faster and more efficiently by taking advantage of readily available code developed and released by Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices group. All book examples are based on a theme project that develops a point-of-sale application for a cosmetics company. You will be introduced to these technologies in conjunction with real-world scenarios.

Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional

Assuming only basic knowledge of C# 2008, Beginning C# 2008 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers.

A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 3.0, Beginning C# 2008 Databases explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T-SQL and C#. Full of practical, detailed examples, it’s been fully revised and updated for C# 2008 and offers the most complete, detailed, and gentle introduction to database technology for all C# programmers at any level of experience.

? Comprehensively and concisely explains fundamental database concepts and programming techniques

? Rich in working examples of both T-SQL and C# programs

? Covers all the features most database programming ever requires

What you’ll learn

? How relational databases work and how to use them

? How C# uses ADO.NET to access databases

? How to write stored procedures in T-SQL and call them from C# programs

? How to use XML in database applications

? How to use LINQ to simplify C# database programming

? How to install SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual C# 3.0

? Express and use them to teach yourself database programming by doing it

Who is this book for?

Beginning C# 2008 Databases is for every C# programmer. Database programming requires relatively little knowledge of C# but a lot of knowledge about relational database concepts and the database language SQL. This book assumes no prior database experience and teaches you, always through hands-on examples, how to create and use relational databases with SQL and how to access them with C#. Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book teaches all the fundamentals you need–and may ever need–to develop professional database applications.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry-level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know–but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real-world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there–it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Related Titles from Apress

? Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer’s Guide

? Expert C# 2005 Business Objects

? Foundations of LINQ in C#

Beginning SharePoint with Excel: From Novice to Professional

Beginning SharePoint with Excel is for advanced Excel users who want to extend the usefulness of Excel by adding the collaborative features of SharePoint. There’s no code in this book because it’s not for programmers; nor is it for Excel beginners. It’s for those of you who regularly use Excel in enterprise business environments and who want to leverage the power and capabilities of SharePoint.

Authors Gini Courter and Annette Marquis have authored over 22 books on Microsoft Office and are partners in a business application consulting firm. In this book, they provide easy-to-implement examples of powerful business solutions. And they take care to explore the interaction between Excel and SharePoint. They also include resources and add-ons that extend SharePoint and Excel features.

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Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition

Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas, Matt Hargett, “Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition”
Pragmatic Bookshelf | ISBN 0977616673 | August 30, 2007 | 239 Pages | PDF | 1.2MB

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs.All over the world, software teams are using unit testing both to verify their code and as a way of helping them design better code. This book is unique in the way it covers two aspects: showing developers both how to test and helping them determine what to test.

New in the second edition:

* Updated for NUnit 2.4 (.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005)

* More assert methods

* New String and Collection assertion support

* Better support for multiple-platform development

* Higher-level setup and teardown fixtures

* Whole new chapter on extending NUnit

* and more!

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