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Completely reengineered for ASP.NET 4—this definitive guide deftly illuminates the core architecture and programming features of ASP.NET 4 in a single, pragmatic volume. Web development expert Dino Esposito provides essential, architectural-level guidance, along with the in-depth technical insights designed to take you—and your solutions—to the next level. The book covers Dynamic Data, AJAX, Microsoft Silverlight®, ASP.NET MVC, Web forms, LINQ, and security strategies—and features extensive code samples in Microsoft Visual C#® 2010.

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

• Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding
• Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details
• Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports
• Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud
• Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation
• Protect your applications with authentication and authorization
• Fine tune your code for scalability and performance
• Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud
• Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface
• Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio
• Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle
• Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug

Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: LightSwitch

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

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• Describes Agile Modeling Driven Design (AMDD) and Test-Driven Design (TDD) approaches, database refactoring, database encapsulation strategies, and tools that support evolutionary techniques
• Agile software developers often use object and relational database (RDB) technology together and as a result must overcome the impedance mismatch
• The author covers techniques for mapping objects to RDBs and for implementing concurrency control, referential integrity, shared business logic, security access control, reports, and XML
• An agile foundation describes fundamental skills that all agile software developers require, particularly Agile DBAs
• Includes object modeling, UML data modeling, data normalization, class normalization, and how to deal with legacy databases
• Scott W. Ambler is author of Agile Modeling (0471202827), a contributing editor with Software Development (www.sdmagazine.com), and a featured speaker at software conferences worldwide

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Turn your design and development skills into marketable assets with this essential guide for Apple users.

SQL Server 2008 has many new additions since the last version, SQL Server 2005. These include

• New useful data types (discrete date and time data types as well as support for geospatial data and hierarchical data representation)
• The new MERGE command
• A revamping of Reporting Services to allow for more elegant reports
• Tracking and availability of “missing” index information

And those are just a few of the improvements.

This book is written for SQL Server 2008. However, it does maintain roots going bad a few versions and looks out for backward compatibility issues with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. These versions are old enough that there is little to no time spent on them except in passing.

The book is oriented around developing on SQL server. Most of the concepts are agnostic to what client language you use although the examples that leverage a client language general do so in C#. For those who are migrating from early versions of SQL Server, some “gotchas” that exist any time a product has versions are discussed to the extent that they seem to be a genuinely relevant issue.

This book assumes that you have some experience with SQL Server and are at an intermediate to advanced level. The orientation of the book is highly developer focused. While there is a quick reference-oriented appendix, there is very little coverage given to beginner level topics. It is assumed that you already have experience with data manipulation language (DML) statements and know the basics of the mainstream SQL Server objects (views, stored procedures, user defined functions, etc.). If you would like to brush up on your knowledge before diving into this book, the author recommends reading Beginning SQL Server 2008 Programming first. There is very little overlap between the Beginning and Professional books and they are designed to work as a pair.

The book is structured with each chapter beginning with an explanation of the things to be covered in that chapter. Each topic covered contains some background information. Sometimes there is an example to work through if it is appropriate for the chapter. Examples are created to be short but still get at several of the concepts you need for whatever topic is being covered at the time. There is a logical progression of the chapters. Tools and data types are reviewed early on, due to changes from earlier versions; however, it moves quickly through the topics that are assumed you are already comfortable with.

In order to use this book you will need administrative access to a computer that is capable of running SQL Server 2008. It is recommended that you use the Developer Edition because the majority of samples and advice applies to all editions of SQL Server. The author does recommend staying with a full version on SQL server rather than using the Express Edition.

Rob Vieira began familiarizing himself with the computing world in 1980 when he split his time between building and repairing computer kits and programing in BASIC. He can also program in database languages such as dBase and SQL server. Beyond a bachelor’s degree in business administration, he has been certified as a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Trainer (MCT), and Database Administrator (MCDBA). He is currently the Database Team Lead for Stockamp, a Huron Consulting Group Practice. Rob has published six books on the SQL Server development.

• Teaches solution architects, designers, and developers how to use Microsoft's reporting platform to create reporting and business intelligence (BI) solutions
• Updated with new information about holistic BI solutions, comprehensive OLAP/Analysis Services reporting, and complete production deployment scenarios
• Includes programming examples focused on specific, scenario-based solutions
• Explains reporting services architecture and business intelligence, teaches the fundamentals of designing reports through the use of careful planning considerations, and covers advanced report design and filtering techniques