By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz
September 2006
Pages: 56
Series: Short Cut
Format: PDF
ISBN 10: 0-596-52921-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596529215
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Learn how to create more dynamic user experiences and build secure web services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two of the foundational pillars of .NET 3.0, with this succinct and well-written PDF document.
Coauthored by best-selling author Jesse Liberty, this document gets right to the point helping you build a meaningful Windows application. It walks you through the terminology, concepts, and software you need to get started and then jumps to creating Me!Trade, a portfolio management tool.
As a bonus, this Short Cut also introduces two additional pillars of .NET 3.0: Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Services.
Take the mystery out of .NET 3.0 and get started today.
Full Description
Learn how to create more dynamic user experiences and build secure web services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two of the foundational pillars of .NET 3.0, with this succinct and well-written PDF document.
Coauthored by best-selling author Jesse Liberty, this document gets right to the point helping you build a meaningful Windows application. It walks you through the terminology, concepts, and software you need to get started and then jumps to creating Me!Trade, a portfolio management tool.
As a bonus, this Short Cut also introduces two additional pillars of .NET 3.0: Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Card Services.
Take the mystery out of .NET 3.0 and get started today.
Featured customer reviews
Good and helpful to beginners!, November 13 2007
Start as any typical .Net book goes with the introduction to the .Net architecture and here we find more about .Net 3.0. It is illustrated using an application as an example. Focuses on the new features and some overview on XAML. It also includes information on WF,WCF,WPF.
Why We Wrote This Book, September 21 2006Submitted by Jesse Liberty [Respond | View]
We wrote this book as a first introduction to help folks get started with .NET 3. It was our theory that building a meaningful application that uses the WPF to display data and the WCF to create a web service and to fetch data would be the best way to see how to accomplish some of the tasks that are most common in .NET 2 applications; thus allowing .NET 2 developers to begin to wrap their heads around what is similar and what is starkly different in .NET 3.
Here is the 50,000 foot overview you need. Vista is a customer-facing operating system that will rely on .NET 3 as a primary development platform.
.NET 3, however, is a developer-facing platform that can be used to develop applications for Windows (and not just Vista) the web, web services, mobile and more. The lines between web and desktop have been blurring and .NET 3 introduces a mark up language for creating desktop applications; this is a very important step for developers, and combined with Atlas, Microsoft has made two major contributions towards moving forward the idea of MVC in which the model (your application and its logic) is truly separated form the View (desktop, web, phone).
Our short cut is thorough intro to a very large subject that we will cover in great detail in our next book. We are working hard and fast on Programming .NET 3 which will go well beyond the basics and will cover WPF, WCF, WF, CardSpaces, Linq, Atlas and much more. Our target audience is the smart intermediate .NET 2 programmer; our approach is to tell the story of .NET 3 not to regurgitate the documentation; our methodology is to introduce examples that are meaningful but not so complex that they get in the way of focusing in on the material (the goal is to teach .NET 3, not impress you with what hot-shots we are). We constrain ourselves to straight-talk, remembering that we won't be in the room when you are reading the book, but we do offer a dedicated support forum (http://forums.delphiforums.com/JesseLiberty) .
We look forward to your feedback.
Thanks.
-j
