| .NET 3.5 will help you create better Windows applications, build Web Services that are more powerful, implement new Workflow projects and dramatically enhance the user's experience. But it does so with what appears to be a collection of disparate technologies.
In Programming .NET 3.5, Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite the .NET 3.5 technologies, so you can benefit from the best practices & architectural patterns baked into this newest generation of Microsoft frameworks.
While single-topic .NET 3.5 books delve into Windows Presentation Foundation and the other frameworks in greater detail, Programming .NET 3.5 offers a "Grand Tour" of the release that describes how the four principal technologies can be used together, with Ajax, to build modern n-tier & service-oriented applications. Developers have struggled to implement these patterns with previous versions of the .NET Framework, but this guide uses real-world examples and fully annotated source code to demonstrate how .NET 3.5 can make it easy.
The concepts and technologies that this book covers include:
- XAML - Microsoft's new XML-based markup language for UI, used with WPF;
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - a new presentation framework & graphics subsystem for Windows that puts Vista-like effect in your grasp;
- Ajax;
- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - a new standards-based framework that enables applications to communicate across a network using a variety of protocols;
- Workflow Foundation (WF) - framework for defining, executing, and managing workflows;
- CardSpace - framework for managing the identities of your users. | |
