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A succinct and practical guide to managing architectural integrity in the design of complex Web-based and Windows®-based applications

Dive deep into the operations of Windows Communication Foundation with this practical book. Learn intricacies of Windows Communication Foundation and service-oriented concepts and implementations. Includes Microsoft Visual C#® code samples.

Make it easy to find the class library details that are essential to every .NET Framework developer#151;with four full-color posters. Created by .NET expert Jeffrey Richter, each poster includes an easy-to-scan class derivation hierarchy of the most useful types, a comprehensive list of value types, an interface cross-reference map, and an assembly cross-reference map. Keep them on your wall as quick references that you\'ll use again and again to find important class library details and relationships in the .NET Framework 2.0.

Get practical, detailed guidance for testing Microsoft PATTERNS & PRACTICES application blocks and other Microsoft .NET application code—with coverage of key testing areas, code examples, sample test cases, and essential checklists.

This book delivers real-world strategies and coding techniques for creating Microsoft Office–based solutions that work seamlessly in the .NET environment—information that’s been put to work by Microsoft’s own product support and development teams.

Get expert guidance, best practices, and code for learning how to exploit design patterns and the Microsoft® .NET Framework to build applications that integrate data, applications, and business processes, as you reduce development complexity and costs.

Apply the concepts and techniques of Test-Driven Development to building Microsoft .NET–connected applications. Two experts in agile software development demonstrate by example how to use tests to drive lean, efficient coding and better design.

Learn best practices and real-world techniques for enabling application interoperability between the Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development platforms for enterprise-level business solutions.

Apply what you know about extreme programming and object-oriented design to learning C# and the Microsoft® .NET Framework on the fly. Written by a leader in extreme programming, this book covers both high-level concepts and practical coding applications.

Bridge the gap between the Microsoft .NET Framework and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) by implementing the best interoperability solutions available today—and by learning to build compatible solutions and workarounds of your own.

Get expert guidance on patterns—simple mechanisms by which software professionals can share important architectural tradeoffs and design decisions—and help reduce the complexity of building high-performance, enterprise-class solutions.

Get answers to fundamental .NET questions in this entertaining third edition of the popular .NET walk-through—now covering the final release code for Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET 2003 and .NET Framework version 1.1.

Learn application debugging techniques for Microsoft® .NET and Microsoft Windows® from a debugging expert. This updated programming guide includes new scenarios, bug-killing tools, tips, and source code and covers topics on Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET.

Get expert architectural and design-level guidance for building distributed solutions with the Microsoft® .NET Framework—learning how to synthesize your knowledge of application development, servers, and infrastructure and business requirements.

Providing both theoretical and practical approaches, this in-depth programming guide explains how to interoperate between COM/COM+ and Microsoft® .NET. Coverage includes writing COM and COM+ code, disconnected applications, and new technologies in .NET.

Explore the internal workings of Visual Studio® .NET Version 2003 to learn how to get the most out of its features, editors, and project-management capabilities. Extend its rich IDE to maximize productivity and use macros and add-ins to simplify work.

Learn proven techniques for exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into real-world solutions. Covers multithreading, COM+ services, ADO.NET, bottlenecks, security, stateless programming, and more.

Learn about the extensive XML core classes in Microsoft® .NET and find out how to get the best performance out of XML in the .NET world with this in-depth guide—written by a popular programming author and consultant on cutting-edge technologies.

Find out how to make your Microsoft® .NET-based applications perform as well as or better than traditional desktop applications with this book—written by the Microsoft team that has tested and tuned hundreds of Web sites and Web-based applications.

This title shows developers how to take full advantage of Microsoft .NET Remoting—a key component of the .NET Framework that provides a way to expose .NET objects across multiple platforms to enable computing anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

Find out how to leverage the full power of the .NET Framework—and how to work with its key programming models—with this definitive, one-stop resource, written by a leading authority in his trademark easy-to-follow, conversational style.

This fact-filled guidebook simplifies the process of building enterprise e-business solutions by combining a wealth of technical information with real-world scenarios to deliver clear, concrete details on how to solve common integration problems.

Discover what’s behind the latest Web database technologies and how to create flexible Web databases that can serve your needs today and scale for the future with the step-by-step lessons and complete code samples in this easy-to-grasp tutorial.