Programming .NET 3.5

by Liberty, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780596527563
• ISBN10: 059652756X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Bestselling author Jesse Liberty and industry expert Alex Horovitz uncover the common threads that unite Microsoft's .NET 3.5 technologies, so that developers can benefit from the best practices and architectural patterns baked into the new frameworks. The book offers a "Grand Tour" of .NET 3.5 that shows how its principle technologies -- including the much discussed WPF (Windows Presentation Framework), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), and WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) frameworks -- can be used with ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ and Silverlight to build a modern n-tier application.

Author Biography

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft in the Silverlight Development Division where his business card reads "Silverlight Geek," and he is responsible for fostering a Silverlight Developer community, primarily through Silverlight.net.

Jesse is the author of numerous books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming Silverlight 2 and the perennial best-seller Programming C# 3.0. Jesse has two decades experience as a developer, author and consultant and has been a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS/Learning Link; and Vice President at Citibank. He provides full support for his writing, and access to his blogs, at JesseLiberty.com.

Alex Horovitz is Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture & Standards at K12, Inc. where he develops enterprise applications leveraging the Model-View-Controller design pattern and re-usable Frameworks. During the 1990s he worked at both NeXT Computer and later at Apple.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Presentation Options
.NET 3.5: A Better Framework for Building MVC, N-Tier, and SOA Applications	p. 3
Integration Versus Silos	p. 4
What? All That in One Book?	p. 5
Introducing XAML: A Declarative Way to Create Windows UIs	p. 7
XAML 101	p. 8
Simple XAML Done Simply	p. 10
Over Here...No, Wait, I Meant Over There!	p. 23
It's Alive! (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Animation)	p. 32
Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation: A Richer Desktop UI Experience	p. 45
Starting Simple: Panels	p. 46
Nesting	p. 65
Resources	p. 67
Transformations	p. 68
Animation	p. 69
Data Binding	p. 76
Applying WPF: Building a Biz App	p. 89
Breaking the Application into Pieces	p. 90
Adorners	p. 90
Business Classes	p. 95
Adding Items to the Shopping Cart	p. 99
Validating the Credit Card	p. 124
Introducing AJAX: Moving Desktop UIs to the Web	p. 137
Web Applications Just Got a Whole Lot Faster	p. 137
Getting Started	p. 139
Creating a "Word Wheel" with AJAX	p. 141
ScriptManager	p. 151
What's Next?	p. 160
Applying AJAX: ListMania	p. 161
Creating the To-Do List Manager	p. 161
Personalizing the To-Do List	p. 180
Introducing Silverlight: A Richer Web UI Platform	p. 195
Silverlight in One Chapter	p. 195
The Breadth of Silverlight	p. 196
Diving Deep: Building an Application	p. 196
Controls	p. 197
Events and Event Handlers	p. 207
Creating Controls Dynamically	p. 212
Data Binding	p. 215
Styling Controls	p. 221
Interlude on Design Patterns
Implementing Design Patterns with .NET 3.5	p. 227
.NET 3.5 Fosters Good Design	p. 228
The N-Tier Pattern	p. 231
The MVC Pattern	p. 232
The Observer Pattern/Publish and Subscribe	p. 249
The Factory Method Pattern	p. 258
The Chain-of-Command Pattern	p. 266
The Singleton Pattern	p. 274
The Business Layer
Understanding LINQ: Queries As First-Class Language Constructs	p. 283
Defining and Executing a LINQ Query	p. 284
Extension Methods	p. 297
Adding the Adventure WorksLT Database	p. 305
LINQ to SQL Fundamentals	p. 308
Using the Visual Studio LINQ to SQL Designer	p. 313
Retrieving Data	p. 317
LINQ to XML	p. 322
Introducing Windows Communication Foundation: Accessible Service-Oriented Architecture	p. 327
Defining a Service More Precisely	p. 328
Implementing Web Services	p. 332
UDDI: Who Is Out There, and What Can They Do for Me?	p. 337
How It All Works	p. 338
WCF's SOA Implementation	p. 339
Putting It All Together	p. 343
Applying WCF: YahooQuotes	p. 346
Creating and Launching a Web Service	p. 346
Consuming the Web Service	p. 355
Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation	p. 365
Conventional (Pre-WF) Flow Control	p. 365
Using Windows Workflow	p. 371
Understanding the WF Runtime	p. 383
Workflow Services	p. 383
Applying WF: Building a State Machine	p. 386
Windows Workflow and State Machines	p. 387
Building an Incident Support State Machine	p. 387
Using and Applying CardSpace: A New Scheme for Establishing Identity	p. 408
About Windows CardSpace	p. 409
Creating a CardSpace Identity	p. 413
Adding CardSpace Support to Your Application	p. 418
Summary	p. 435
Epilogue	p. 437
Index	p. 439
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