• INTRODUCTION xxxiii PART I: VISUAL STUDIO
• CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF VISUAL STUDIO 3 Roots 4 Visual Studio.NET 2002 and 2003 5 Visual Studio 2005 7 Visual Studio 2008 8 Visual Studio 2010 10 Summary 13
• CHAPTER 2: VISUAL STUDIO UI ENHANCEMENTS 15 Basic IDE Overview 15 Exploring New Daily Development Features 20 Exploring the Visual Designers 25 New Tools for Architects 27 Summary 29
• CHAPTER 3: VISUAL STUDIO CODE SNIPPETS 31 Understanding Code Snippets 32 Creating Code Snippets 38 Managing Code Snippets 51 Advanced Code Snippet Features 56 Snippet Editors 59 Summary 63
• CHAPTER 4: VISUAL STUDIO TEMPLATES 65 The Role of Templates 66 Creating Templates 70 Template Storage Structure 81 Customizing Templates 98 Deploying Templates 110 Summary 125
• CHAPTER 5: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE IDE 127 Window Management 128 Customizing Menus and Toolbars 138 IDE Configuration 145 Reducing Efforts with Keyboard Shortcuts 155 Custom Start Pages 162 Customizing the Toolbox 186 Visual Studio Gallery 193 Summary 198
• CHAPTER 6: VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIBILITY 201 The Visual Studio Shell and Packages 202 Extensibility Out of the Box 204 Extensions with Visual Studio SDK 210 Creating Visual Studio Macros 213 Creating Visual Studio Add-Ins 229 Visual Studio Packages in a Nutshell 242 Extending the New Editor 255 Summary 275 PART II: .NET 4
• CHAPTER 7: .NET FRAMEWORK VERSION HISTORY 279 Before the .NET Framework 279 The Origin and Goals of the .NET Framework 282 Evolution of the .NET Framework 283 .NET Framework Architecture 289 Main Benefits of the .NET Framework 293 Summary 294
• CHAPTER 8: MODERN UI FRAMEWORKS (WPF AND SILVERLIGHT) 297 The Importance of User Experience 297 Developers Are from Vulcan, Designers Are from Venus 299 A New Generation of Presentation Frameworks 301 The Ten Pillars of Silverlight 303 Windows Presentation Foundation 359 Choosing Between WPF and Silverlight 366 Designer - Developer Cooperation in Silverlight and WPF 367 Summary 373
• CHAPTER 9: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF) 375 WCF Versus ASMX Web Services 375 A Quick Look at SOA 376 Building Blocks of the WCF Architecture 378 Getting Started With WCF 381 Working with an Ajax-Enabled WCF Service 392 REST and WCF 394 Implementing a WCF Service Declaratively 394 Summary 398
• CHAPTER 10: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET CORE FRAMEWORK 399 Changes in Common Language Run-time 400 Type Equivalence 411 Parallel Computing 415 Code Contracts 455 Managed Extensibility Framework 463 Summary 487
• CHAPTER 11: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET WORKFLOW FRAMEWORK 489 An Introduction to WF 4.0 490 Creating Flowcharts and Coded Workflows 499 Workflow Architecture 509 Workflow Activity Library 517 Using the Compensating Transaction Model 527 Persistence and Human Interactions 532 Workflow Services 551 Summary 562
• CHAPTER 12: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET DATA FRAMEWORK 563 Language Integrated Query (LINQ) 563 Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) 572 Entity Framework 573 The Entity Data Source Control 579 Choosing Between LINQ to Entities and LINQ to SQL 579 Summary 579
• CHAPTER 13: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK 581 Enhancements in WCF Framework 3.5 581 Enhancements in WCF Framework 4.0 583 Summary 592
• CHAPTER 14: .NET CHARTING COMPONENTS 593 Creating Charts 594 Using Chart Controls 605 Advanced Chart Manipulation 633 Summary 649 PART III: ASP.NET 4.0
• CHAPTER 15: ASP.NET VERSION HISTORY 653 Development of the Web and Web Development 653 Enter ASP 654 Enter ASP.NET 655 ASP.NET Version History 657 Summary 668
• CHAPTER 16: ASP.NET CHARTING CONTROLS 669 Creating Charts 670 Rendering ASP.NET Charts 679 Chart State Management 688 User Interactivity 694 Summary 709
• CHAPTER 17: ASP.NET DYNAMIC DATA 711 Creating a New Dynamic Data Web Site 711 Working to Modify Implementation to Fit Business Needs 730 Summary 750
• CHAPTER 18: ASP.NET MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER (MVC) 751 Introduction to MVC 752 Creating an MVC 2 Application 761 Adding New MVC 2 Pages 771 Customization in MVC 2 790 Routing Details 816 Testing with MVC 2 824 A Few More Points on MVC 2 834 Summary 835
• CHAPTER 19: ASP.NET AJAX IMPROVEMENTS 837 Understanding Ajax 838 Using the ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls 841 Using the Microsoft Ajax Library 848 Summary 892
• CHAPTER 20: ASP.NET AJAX CONTROL TOOLKIT AND JQUERY 893 First Look at the Ajax Control Toolkit 894 Using the Controls of the Toolkit 908 The jQuery Library 962 Summary 977
• CHAPTER 21: HISTORY OF VISUAL BASIC 981 The Roots of Visual Basic 982 Visual Basic in the .NET Framework 986 Summary 1005
• CHAPTER 22: VISUAL BASIC 10.0 LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENTS 1007 New Productivity-Improving Syntax 1008 Working with Dynamic Objects 1020 Variance 1026 Summary 1038
• CHAPTER 23: HISTORY OF C# 1041 The Evolution of C# 1041 C# 1.0 1044 C# 2.0 1047 C# 3.0 1056 Summary 1064
• CHAPTER 24: C# 4.0 LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENTS 1065 Pains with Interoperability 1066 Dynamic Lookup 1072 Named and Optional Parameters 1078 COM-Specific Interoperability Features 1084 Variance 1087 Summary 1099 PART VI: F#
• CHAPTER 25: VISUAL F# AND THE OTHER .NET LANGUAGES 1103 A Brief History of F# 1104 F# at First Glance 1105 Your First F# Project 1112 Programming with F# 1113 A Larger Application in F# 1163 Other .NET Languages 1170 Summary 1171 INDEX 1173.
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• INTRODUCTION. PART I: VISUAL STUDIO.
• CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF VISUAL STUDIO.
• CHAPTER 2: VISUAL STUDIO UI ENHANCEMENTS.
• CHAPTER 3: VISUAL STUDIO CODE SNIPPETS.
• CHAPTER 4: VISUAL STUDIO TEMPLATES.
• CHAPTER 5: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE IDE.
• CHAPTER 6: VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIBILITY. PART II: .NET
• 4.
• CHAPTER 7: .NET FRAMEWORK VERSION HISTORY.
• CHAPTER 8: MODERN UI FRAMEWORKS (WPF AND SILVERLIGHT).
• CHAPTER 9: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION (WCF).
• CHAPTER 10: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET CORE FRAMEWORK.
• CHAPTER 11: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET WORKFLOW FRAMEWORK.
• CHAPTER 12: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET DATA FRAMEWORK.
• CHAPTER 13: ENHANCEMENTS TO THE .NET COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK.
• CHAPTER 14: .NET CHARTING COMPONENTS. PART III: ASP.NET 4.0.
• CHAPTER 15: ASP.NET VERSION HISTORY.
• CHAPTER 16: ASP.NET CHARTING CONTROLS.
• CHAPTER 17: ASP.NET DYNAMIC DATA.
• CHAPTER 18: ASP.NET MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER (MVC).
• CHAPTER 19: ASP.NET AJAX IMPROVEMENTS.
• CHAPTER 20: ASP.NET AJAX CONTROL TOOLKIT AND JQUERY. PART IV: VB.NET
• CHAPTER 21: HISTORY OF VISUAL BASIC.
• CHAPTER 22: VISUAL BASIC 10.0 LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENTS. PART V: C#
• CHAPTER 23: HISTORY OF C#.
• CHAPTER 24: C# 4.0 LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENTS. PART VI: F#
• CHAPTER 25: VISUAL F# AND THE OTHER .NET LANGUAGES. INDEX.
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Complete coverage of all key .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 languages and technologies .NET 4 is Microsoft's latest version of their core programming platform, and Visual Studio 2010 is the toolset that helps write .NET 4 applications. This comprehensive resource offers one-stop shopping for all you need to know to get productive with .NET 4. Experienced author and .NET guru Mitchel Sellers reviews all the important new features of .NET 4, including .NET charting and ASP.NET charting, ASP.NET dynamic data and jQuery, and the addition of F# as a supported package language. The expansive coverage is divided into six distinctive parts for easy navigation, and addresses: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, ASP.NET, the C# language, the VB.NET language, and the new F# language. A practical approach and complete examples round out this much-needed reference. Focuses on the new and important features of the latest version Microsoft's core programming platform-.NET 4-as well as Visual Studio 2010, which allows you to write .NET 4 applications Provides comprehensive coverage divided into six parts: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, ASP.NET, the C# language, the VB.NET language, and the new F# language Discusses Visual Studio snippets and templates, .NET charting components, the .NET framework and WPF, LINQ, and the Entity framework Explores various aspects of Visual Basic 2010, such as multi-line lambdas, auto-implemented properties, nullable optional parameters, and more This investigative look at .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 will help you identify and isolate key elements that can benefit you immediately.
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