August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed
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Creating Web Clients
The vast majority of applications built these days involve some semblance of a web component—be it a full-blown browser-based, web application; a smart client that works across the Web; or a web service. In fact, the line between a traditional rich client and a web application is blurring, and Technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), jQuery, Web Services, Smart Clients, XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), and Silverlight have helped blur the line. You can now build rich user experiences as your needs dictate. Of course, Microsoft has remained suitably focused on expanding Visual Studio’s capabilities with respect to web development.
Web developers want tools that help them through the common ...